Perioperative Blood Conservation: Guidelines to Practice

Keywords

Clinical practice guideline, Implementation, Anemia, Transfusion, Patient blood management ,Robust process improvement, Quality improvement, Survey

Key points

The formulation of clinical practice guidelines are complex, resource-intense processes for summarizing evidence-based best practices, yet alone are insufficient for translating guidelines to practice.

The implementation of practice guidelines requires changing physician behaviors, engaging multiple stakeholders with flexible and persistent leadership effort.

Identifying and responding to both barriers and facilitators of evidence-base best practices are vital to translating guidelines to practice.

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