Series 4: Episode 1: What is a guideline?

The Quality Improvement (QI) Boxset will allow you to learn about Quality Improvement with small bite-sized episodes of content. Just like streaming services, you can scroll and pick and choose what you want to watch or listen to. 

This episode:

  • Explains what guidelines are and why they are important in practice.
  • Explains the important difference between guidelines and protocols.

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Episode 1: What is a guideline?
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In this module, you will learn how guidelines can assist with decision-making to improve the quality of care we deliver, and how you can develop guidelines for your practice.


CPD: 20 minutes
Authors: RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board
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Episode 1: What is a guideline?
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In this webinar, Pam Mosedale chats to Laura Playforth about what guidelines are and why they are important in veterinary practice.

CPD: 25 minutes
Authors: Pam Mosedale and Laura Playforth




Course image When is a guideline not a guideline? When it's a protocol!
Episode 1: What is a guideline?
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In this webinar, Pam Mosedale talks about the important difference between guidelines and protocols.

CPD: 10 minutes
Authors: Pam Mosedale
Course image Why involving the team in writing guidelines is important
Episode 1: What is a guideline?
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Read our QI Feature to understand why it is important to involve the team in writing guidelines. 

This is article twenty-one in RCVS Knowledge's series of features on patient safety, clinical human factors, and the principles and associated themes of Quality Improvement (QI).


CPD: 15 minutes
Authors: Angela Rayner
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Episode 1: What is a guideline?
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CPD: 1 minute
Authors: RCVS Knowledge