Clinical recommended practices, registration number CZ.03.2.63/0.0/0.0/15_039/0008221, priority axis OPZ: 2 - Social inclusion and combating poverty

The Agency for Health Research of the Czech Republic as a beneficiary of support from the Operational Programme Employment draws on the project Clinical Recommended Practices, registration number CZ.03.2.2.63/0.0/0.0/15_039/0008221, OPP priority axis: 2 - Social inclusion and combating poverty (hereinafter referred to as the "KDP project"), the financial resources of the European Social Fund, i.e. the state budget resources for the pre-financing of the expenses to be covered by the National Fund (§ 44 para. The implementation of the Project started on 1 January 2018 and will be completed by 31 December 2022 at the latest.

The purpose of the support is to propose clinical diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations from the areas of highest heterogeneity of medical care in the Czech Republic and to prepare methodological background for their development.

The target groups of the KDP project are people with insufficient competences in health approach, public health protection and promotion workers and health service providers and commissioners.

Partner No. 1 of the KDP project is the Ministry of Health, which will guarantee the general acceptance of the resulting outputs and will initiate the process of implementation of the resulting proposals for clinical recommended practices into practice, including the initiation of legislative measures.

Partner No.2 of the KDP project is the Institute of Health Information and Statistics ČR. The partnership consists mainly in the development of a draft binding methodology for the creation of the KDP, sharing a team of experts for data collection, analysis and incorporation in the validation process. This partner will contribute to the KDP project by supplying data and statistics to be prepared by its tribal staff on the basis of requests from the Guarantee Commission and, with the approval of the Ministry of Health, will participate in the dissemination of the project outputs, both through a web presentation on the website and at conferences and training events on the subject.

The KDP project consists of 4 key activities:

  1. Managing authority for the development and updating, controlling authority
  2. Methodological background of the KDP
  3. Creation and publication of draft KDPs
  4. Communication and education

The governing and supreme professional body of the KDP project is the Guarantee Committee, which is composed of a maximum of fifteen members, one of whom is the chairman of the GC. Its activities include, in particular, reviewing and approving the methodology to ensure a consistent and binding procedure for the development of at least 40 KDP proposals, proposing the subject matter of the KDP and establishing a list for approval by Partner 1, identifying the expert companies, subject to approval by Partner 1, that will develop each KDP, and proposing a list of referees to review the KDP proposals developed by the expert companies.

Another body in the KDP project is the Audit Committee, which is the expert advisory body in the KDP project. It is also composed of a maximum of 15 members, one of whom is the chair of the AC. The main activities of the CC consist of drafting a binding methodology for the development of the KDP, including the necessary analyses for the development of specific KDP proposals, data and statistics, submitting the methodological materials to the Guarantee Commission for approval, and checking the formalities of the development of the KDP proposals, validation of the methodology after the creation of 6 pilot KDPs, including the incorporation of the data in the validation, methodological support to the KDP drafters in accordance with the established methodology and the binding content and structure, training of the KDP drafters and participation in the dissemination of the KDP project outputs with the approval of Partner No. 1 in the form of a web presentation.

As part of the KDP project, the National Clinical Guideline Portal website(https://kdp.uzis.cz/) was launched.

The KDP project has been successfully completed with the creation of 41 draft clinical guideline procedures and according to the project it was completed by 31 December 2022.


Contact
Chair Guarantee Commission:
prof. MUDr. Miroslav Ryska, CSc.

Methodologist of the Guarantee Commission:
RNDr. Petr Kozel

Assistant to the Guarantee Commission:
Ing. Radana Donátová