Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG's)

Clinical Practice Guidelines:

• Are systematically developed statements that assist practitioners in making decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.
• Provides the practitioner with a synthesis of the best available empirical evidence about specific clinical situations, and where such evidence may be lacking, with professional consensus opinion. 
• Assists in continuous quality management to promote appropriate and effective utilization of health care resources to improve health outcomes and to minimize variation in clinical practice.

Perinatal Services BC has developed and disseminated obstetric and newborn interdisciplinary guidelines to all acute perinatal care facilities in British Columbia since 1990 and to community perinatal care facilities since 1997.  The purpose of Perinatal Services BC guidelines is to recommend practice parameters based on current research, expert opinion, and "best practice" methods.

Perinatal Services BC supports a philosophy of interdisciplinary education and all perinatal guidelines have been developed, distributed, and implemented within a multidisciplinary context.

Copyright

Perinatal Services BC (PSBC) retains all intellectual copyright to the original material contained in these guidelines.  Guidelines produced by other organizations are reproduced here with attribution and permission of the authors, and are protected by individual copyright.