Citation

Suárez-Obando F, Restrepo CG. Rev. Colomb. Psiquiatr. 2017; 46(4): 194-202.

Vernacular Title

Patrones de consulta en la web de las guías de práctica clínica sobree manejo del trastorno depresivo y el abuso-dependencia del alcohol.

Affiliation

Instituto de Genética Humana, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Departamento de Epidemiología y Bioestadística, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia; Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Sociedad Colombiana De Psiquiatria)

DOI

10.1016/j.rcp.2016.07.004

PMID

29122225

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are a set of recommendations for professionals, patients, and families, in order to make decisions about health care. The CPG respond to the need for concise, accurate, practical, and up to date information. In the field of mental health, Colombia has developed three GPC; alcohol (GPC-OH), depression (GPC-TDA), and schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVES: To describe the Web Portal traffic related to psychiatry guidelines, with emphasis on the number of visits, distribution throughout Colombian cities, and estimating user behaviour patterns.

METHODS: An evaluation was made of the traffic at the Clinical Practice Guidelines Web Portal of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection between 2013 and 2015 (two years of observation since the inauguration of the Portal).

RESULTS: Out of the 45 GPC published on the website, the CPG-OH represented 1.21% of all page views of the Portal. CPG-TDA reached 1.52% (accumulated percentage of 2.73%), being the eighth most consulted guideline, with CPG-OH being number 16. The highest mean monthly number of visits for this group of guideliness was for the CPG-OH for health professionals (353 visits/month), and the lowest was for the CPG-AD for patients and relatives (24 single visits/month). Bogotá D.C. was the city where health carers accessed the guidelines more often. The guidelines for patients and relatives were consulted more in Villavicencio, Cúcuta, Manizales, Pereira, and Pasto.

CONCLUSIONS: The web portal partially fulfills the purpose of circulating the CPG in Colombia. The visits to the CPG of mental health is quite low, and requires better dissemination strategies that allow the use of information and communication technology.

Copyright © 2016 Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría. Publicado por Elsevier España. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

Computer communication networks; Gestión del conocimiento para la investigación en salud; Guías de práctica clínica; Information services; Internet; Knowledge management for health research; Practice guidelines; Redes de comunicación de computadores; Servicios de información