Guideline Adherence

"Guideline Adherence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Conformity in fulfilling or following official, recognized, or institutional requirements, guidelines, recommendations, protocols, pathways, or other standards.

Descriptor ID	D019983
MeSH Number(s)	N04.761.337 N05.715.360.395
Concept/Terms	Guideline Adherence Guideline Adherence Adherence, Guideline Policy Compliance Policy Compliance Compliance, Policy Protocol Compliance Protocol Compliance Compliance, Protocol Institutional Adherence Institutional Adherence Adherence, Institutional

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Guideline Adherence".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Quality of Health Care [N04.761]
Guideline Adherence [N04.761.337]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Guideline Adherence [N05.715.360.395]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Guideline Adherence".

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Bar chart showing 225 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
1999	1	0	1
2001	1	1	2
2003	3	5	8
2004	2	6	8
2005	3	3	6
2006	3	5	8
2007	2	5	7
2008	4	8	12
2009	2	5	7
2010	4	9	13
2011	6	8	14
2012	7	6	13
2013	5	6	11
2014	8	6	14
2015	12	4	16
2016	13	6	19
2017	7	6	13
2018	5	6	11
2019	6	4	10
2020	1	5	6
2021	2	3	5
2022	1	0	1
2023	2	2	4
2024	1	4	5
2025	5	2	7
2026	2	1	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Guideline Adherence" by people in Profiles.

Gazarian PK, Crawford S, Quill C, Rossetti V. From Policy to Practice: The Evidence on Pre-Registration and Reporting Guidelines in Nursing Journal Publications. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2026 Jun; 23(3):e70149.

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Feeney ME, Canova AE, Law AC, Walkey AJ, Bosch NA. Guideline-Concordant Sedative and Analgesia Use in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Sustained Neuromuscular Blockade. Crit Care Explor. 2026 Feb; 8(2):e1370.

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Feeney ME, Canova AE, Law AC, Walkey AJ, Bosch NA. Guideline-Concordant Sedative and Analgesia Use in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Sustained Neuromuscular Blockade. Crit Care Explor. 2026 Feb 01; 8(2):e1370.

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Flanagan M, Fantasia HC. A Multicomponent, Team-Based Quality Improvement Project for Improving Cervical Cancer Screenings in Primary Care. Nurs Womens Health. 2026 02; 30(1):25-32.

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Chen AY, Simon GE, Ericson KM, Zeber JE, Qian J, Geissler KH. Guideline-Concordant Care and Clinician and Clinic Characteristics for Patients With Schizophrenia. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Dec 01; 8(12):e2549130.

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Jin Y, Yan S, Yao X, Dahm P, Alonso-Coello P, Brignardello-Petersen R, Keitz S, Rylance J, Cheung M, Agoritsas T, Kunkle R, Murad MH, Guyatt G. Study protocol for developing the evaluation instrument of guideline adherence to GRADE approach (GRADE-Check). BMJ Open. 2025 Nov 09; 15(11):e105534.

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Ramesh R, Stacey P, Alexander M, Doulamis I, Welch HJ, Lipsitz E, Indes JE. Guideline-based screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms is significantly underperformed and possibly impacted by medical comorbidities. J Vasc Surg. 2026 03; 83(3):953-960.e2.

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Nieser KJ, Harris AHS, Binswanger IA, Clark SC, Finlay AK. Legal-involved veterans are less likely to receive guideline-concordant colorectal cancer screening. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Mar 04; 25(1):333.

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Alonso A, Kobzeva-Herzog A, Dalton-Petillo S, Haqqani M, Farber A, King EG, Hicks CW, Malas M, Garg K, Osborne N, Simons JP, Siracuse JJ. Evaluating the management of intermittent claudication before and after publication of the Society of Vascular Surgery's Appropriate Use Criteria. J Vasc Surg. 2025 08; 82(2):526-533.e3.

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Iannuzzi JC, Animilli S, Simons JP, Tonnessen BH, Koleilat I, Indes JE, Conte MS, Eldrup-Jorgensen J. Vascular Quality Initiative assessment of compliance with Society for Vascular Surgery Practice Guidelines for the endovascular management of claudication. J Vasc Surg. 2025 05; 81(5):1155-1163.

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