Improving access to guidance
NICE wants to ensure its guidance is effectively disseminated to the end user. We designed the electronic guidance access project to do this.
Advances in information technology mean that NICE recommendations may reach our audiences through other routes than those provided directly by NICE. For example, clinicians may access information from NICE guidance by clicking on a care pathway in a clinical decision support system.
For information to be disseminated effectively through such systems, it must be broken into xml “knowledge fragments”. At present, users view NICE guidance online as pdfs, and only complete documents can be accessed. This means users may have to trawl through pages of guidance to find what they are looking for.
You will be able to go straight to the recommendations from the rather than read the whole document and browse through the chapters usuing a guidance viewer. TA 157 Venous thromboembolism - dabigatran is currently available in the new style.
Aims of improving access to our guidance
We will change the way NICE produces guidance. We are exploring how to produce guidance documents that can be:
- displayed on the NICE website, or other websites and intranets
- incorporated into information systems such as NHS Evidence
- integrated into clinical decision support systems
This page was last updated: 13 September 2011
