Finding the evidence: guide to the best available evidence to support introduction of new technologies and clinical practices
This guide is designed to be pragmatic and meet the needs of clinicians and managers rather than comprehensive and exhaustive to meet the needs of health service researchers. The focus is on finding the best available synthesised evidence; it is not a guide to conducting a systematic review.
A new 'technology or clinical practice' (TCP) is a therapeutic intervention (including prostheses; implantable devices; high cost pharmaceuticals; medical, surgical or other clinical procedures) or diagnostic procedure that is considered by a reasonable body of clinical opinion to be significantly different from existing practice.
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