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Learned counsel | Can guidelines curb the demand for planned healthcare?

Dates:25 February 2014
Times:14:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Institute of Population Health
Who is it for:Current University students, University staff
Speaker:Professor Ray Pawson, Dr Joanne Greenhalgh , Dr Cathy Brennan
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  • By Institute of Population Health

Host: Centre for Primary Care, Institute of Population Health

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Regardless of health issue, health sector, patient condition or treatment modality, the chances are that provision is supported by ‘a guideline’ making professionally-endorsed recommendations on best practice. The paper, which is part of a larger HS&DR funded review on ‘demand management for planned healthcare’, examines whether demand can be curbed and sculptured with the appropriate formal guidance. This hypothesis has been met with a mountain of primary research and a hillock of secondary analysis and this paper consider how best to conduct a systematic review of this landscape.

Our ‘review of reviews’ covers: i) systematic reviews conducted in the Cochrane tradition, ii) qualitative thematic reviews, describing the ‘facilitators and barriers’ to guideline implementation, and iii) a realist synthesis, centring on testing the ‘programme theory’ underlying guidelines. The main and undoubtedly sound conclusion from all of these inquiries is that guidelines have a limited role in addressing demand problems. The reason why guidelines falter is little to do with their content and format but is mostly due to the complex decision structures in which they are embedded.

So what are these underlying decision structures? The paper argues that realist synthesis may be able decipher parts that other review methods cannot reach.

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Professor Ray Pawson

Role: Professor of Social Research Methodology

Organisation: Leeds University

Dr Joanne Greenhalgh

Role: Principal Research Fellow Sociology and Social Policy

Organisation: Leeds University

Dr Cathy Brennan

Role: Leeds Institute of Health Sciences

Organisation: Leeds University

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