Critiquing Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines using the AGREE II

School: University of Florida - Course: NGR 6850 - Subject: Accounting

Module #3: Individual Assignment Critiquing Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines using the AGREE II Tool Instrument INSTRUCTIONS Completethe assignment, using thisWord fileas a worksheet.Typeyour answers directly on this sheet. Use APA style and include citations to support your work. QUESTIONS 1.In this assignment, you will evaluate a Clinical Practice Guideline developed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology on the Integration of Palliative Care into Standard Oncology Careusing theAppraisal ofGuidelines forResearch andEvaluation (AGREE) II tool as an organizing structure. Use the AGREE II User's Manual(pages 9-44), to guide your work on the tables on the following pages. Rate each numbered item on the Likert scale and provide a rationale for your rating in the Comments box. Appraisal ofGuidelines forResearch andEvaluation (AGREE) II Enterprise Website AGREE II The PDF file of the Clinical Practice Guideline is on the assignment page.

NGR 6850 2 AGREE II INSTRUMENT DOMAIN 1. SCOPE AND PURPOSE1StronglyDisagree234567 Strongly Agree 1.The overall objective(s) of the guideline is (are)specifically described. X Comments: The overall objective is specifically described well and throughout this Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). Itstates, "Should palliative care concurrent with oncology care be standard practice?"(Ferrell et al., 2017). 2.The health question(s) covered by the guideline is(are) specifically described. X Comments: Even though the article states "advanced cancer and their caregivers" I do not feel that there were a lot of health questions covered by the guideline. The article does go on to ask "Which patients should be offered or referred to palliative care services, and when in their disease trajectory; are there triggers that should be used to prompt specialty palliative care referrals"(Ferrell et al., 2017)? However, when dealing with such a sensitive topic such as cancer and palliative care I feel that there a lot more health questions that could be asked. As stated in this CPG "Patient, caregiver, and clinician communication is a foundation of palliative care"(Ferrell et al., 2017). Therefore, I believe more health questions should have been addressed in this article.