Please refer to the following Libguides on the navigation bar to assist with updating or creating a Prompt guideline
Follow the boxes in numbered sequence; or refer to a specific box in relation to the stage of your Prompt guideline development
The information in this guide has been approved by the Clinical Education & Clinical Governance departments.
A high quality external resource can be identified as one of the following, these websites have already gone through stringent appraisal and methodology processes.
Clinical Guidelines are evidence based statements that include recommendations intended to optimise patient care and assist health care practitioners to make decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.
Start with Australian based guidelines such as Safer Care Victoria & Choosing Wisely which provide a broader range of topics or choose a more specific resources e.g updating oncology policies try Eviq or for stroke policies refer to Stroke Foundation's Living stroke Guidelines.
For a full list of Australian-based Living Guidelines click here at the Australian Living Evidence Consortium page.
UpToDate now has links to guidelines, simply search for a topic and click on the Society Guidelines link in the topic contents listing.
Evidence Based Resources
Up To Date - UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource that assists clinicians with point-of-care decisions. UpToDate covers 25 medical specialties with over 10,500 topic reviews, each of which covers multiple clinical questions. Additionally, UpToDate includes graphics, patient education, clinical calculators, and a drug database.
Cochrane - The Cochrane Library is a collection of five databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence (Systematic reviews, Trials, RCT's). Access to Cochrane is free via funding by the Australian Government.
Please refer to the Clinical Practice Guidelines Subject Guide and select the Evaluating Guidelines tab, which links out to checklists Agree-II
What is Prompt?
Prompt stores policies and procedures of other 100 Victorian health services, who subscribe to this software
Where do I access Prompt?
Prompt is accessible from Cabinet main page and other locations inside the Cabrini Intranet (Cabinet)
How do I view other hospitals Prompt documents?
To view another health organisation's on Prompt you are required to have your own personal login.
Can I access Prompt from offsite?
Yes you can.
Please contact ldawes@cabrini.com.au to register for remote access/personal registration
Important - A similar or same topic of an existing procedure produced by another health service doesn't mean it is necessarily of high quality.
Note the following in the health services documents
If you cannot find an existing high quality procedure to adapt or there are no guidelines, then you need to develop your procedure by searching for original studies to provide evidence to write the policy.
Listed below are some referring guides to assist with your search.
The library service offers staff a literature search service
For some topics there may be little evidence from clinical trials, or the evidence may be weak or contradictory. In these instances health professionals can tap into knowledge, experience and judgement of health professionals, topic experts and consumers to make consensus recommendations.
Utilise the Cabrini Clinical Safety and Quality Stands Committees for facilitating discussion and consensus on the information sourced.
Cabrini has adopted the APA style for referencing of Prompt policies and guidelines.
Please refer to the Referencing Guide for examples of various formats including-
Some of the content was adapted with permission from the Barwon Health Libguide. Clinical Procedure Development..