Best practice guidelines are designed for populations but can be challenging for individual patients. Providers should focus on creating value for patients. The researchers created a tool called "The Value Framework" to help providers decide if interventions will create value for their individual patients by incorporating clinical judgment into guidelines.

1.  Best practice guidelines are designed for
Question 3 populations of patients and there is an inevitable
challenge when providers are asked to make
Given that medicine is an decisions for individuals patients
art as well as a
science, it’s inevitable that  Providers should focus on delivering care that
reasonable doctors will creates value for patients
disagree on which  Our research group has created a tool called “The
practices are best. How Value Framework.” It’s a simple and concise
can we take this
framework to help providers decide if the medical
disagreement into
account by incorporating
intervention will create value for their patients.
clinical judgment into
guidelines on best
practices?