Clinical guideline utilization in Uganda: A scoping review and comparison. (October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bola, Rajan; Kihumuro, Raymond Bernard; Ngonzi, Joseph; Lett, Ronald
• Is Part Of: Tropical doctor. Volume 52:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 550
• Page End: 552
• Publication Date: 2022-10
• Subjects: Clinical practice guidelines -- scoping review -- Uganda; Tropical medicine -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing Countries -- Periodicals; Tropical Medicine -- Periodicals; Tropische geneeskunde; 616.9883
• DOI: 10.1177/00494755221094167
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0049-4755

Abstract

Countries such as Uganda often depend on clinical practice guidelines from developed countries, non-profit charities, and international organizations. The sources and organizations that provide most of the guidelines used in Uganda are not well documented. The primary objective of this article was to determine whether a scoping review of scientific, peer-reviewed literature could identify the clinical guidelines actually used in Uganda. A secondary objective was to examine which organizations provided the majority of guidelines used. We therefore searched for consensus documents, guidelines, and meta-analyses published for use in African countries indexed in PubMed, OVID Medline, and Embase, and then surveyed guidelines currently in use in Ugandan medical practice. We thus compared these two sets of guidelines, as well as their breadth, geography, and sources, to make recommendations for similar low-income countries.