HRM 775 - Health Care Guidelines Development Methods (2020)

From October 2019 through January 2021, I worked for the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University.

In October of 2019 I flagged the issue that the pre-existing elearning resources were all encoded in Flash, and that they’d need to be replaced by December 2020. I provided consultation for Dr. Robby Nieuwlaat and Dr. Jan Brozek.

Course Summary

This is a distance education course offered using McMaster online Avenue to Learn. It focuses on making evidence-based health care recommendations and clinical practice guidelines. The course uses audio-visual presentations, facilitated tutorials, required readings, discussion boards and assignments to highlight the steps of the guideline development process: planning the project, choosing the panel, managing conflicts of interest, defining the scope, finding appraising and summarizing evidence, deciding on the final recommendations, as well as dissemination, implementation and adaptation of guidelines. The course follows the steps of executing one full guideline recommendation and students are required to complete one recommendation with all supporting materials end-to-end.