DEVELOPMENTS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES IN PRIMARY CARE INCREASES THE VALUE AND REDUCE THE WASTE

Introduction and Objectives: In the Kingdom health system consists of several services offer by different stakeholders and moreover the system is mainly run by expatriates come from different backgrounds and health culture. Thus the health system in Saudi Arabia requires standardized practice guidelines. The Saudi Centre for Evidence Based Health Care, Ministry of Health took an initiative and developed guidelines and disseminated among practice physicians. Method: In order to make clinical practice guidelines (CPG) the contributing specialists were experts from the Ministry of Health (MoH), and other almost all stakeholders from Internationally through McMaster University’s experts. The Saudi Centre for Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC) provided a list of potential topics to be addressed in CPGs after thorough consultations with the local stakeholders and based on available evidence syntheses. As a quality measure for any practice guideline prior to dissemination, the final report have been internal peer reviewed by a methodological expert who has not been involved in this guideline development. Results and Conclusion: As a result the Saudi Centre for Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC) developed 12 CPG on prevention of VTE for non surgical, screening of Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Osteoporosis and HTN, colon cancer, management of preeclampsia & eclampsia, obesity, Allergic Rhinitis, ST elevation in MI, migraine, sickle cell anemia and thalassemia. These CGPs have been disseminated and available on Ministry of Health website (http://www.moh.gov.sa/depts/Proofs/Pages/Guidelines.aspx). These CGPs will helpful to reduce the variability in the practices and community receives high quality care at the primary health care level.