Form #1 Form #1 NGC Evaluation Survey

Form Approved
OMB No. 0935-XXXX
Exp. Date XX/XX/20XX

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse™

Survey Questionnaire

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Figure 1: Schematic of the NGC Evaluation Survey Branch Pattern

Section 1 – NGC Awareness Screening

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4. Are you aware of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC; www.guideline.gov), a Web-based clearinghouse for access to evidence-based clinical practice guidelines?

□ Yes

□ No

If “YES”, skip to Section 2A
If “NO”, skip to Section 2B

Section 2A – Use of NGC (AWARE OF NGC; “yes” to question 1)

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8. Have you ever used the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ Web site?

□ Yes

□ No

If “YES”, move to section 3
If “NO”, move to section 2B

Section 2B – Respondent Characteristics and Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines (UNAWARE OF NGC; “NO” to question 1, section 1 OR AWARE OF NGC but have never used the NGC Web site; Answered “NO” to question 2, section 2B)

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12. Where do you reside?

□ United States Northeast Region (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

□ United States Midwest Region (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas)

□ United States South Region (Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas)

□ United States West Region (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii)

□ Canada

□ Latin America

□ Europe

□ Africa

□ Asia

□ Australia/New Zealand

□ Other

Go to question 3 (2B)

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14. Which one of the following occupational categories best describes you?

□ Physician

□ Physician Assistant

□ Nurse/Nurse Practitioner

□ Pharmacist

□ Dentist

□ Other Clinical Specialist

□ Hospital/Health Plan Administrator

□ Health Care Consultant

□ Health Services/Clinical Researcher

□ Guideline Developer

□ Measure Developer

□ Health Care Purchaser/Employer

□ Health Care Provider

□ Federal/State/Government Policymaker

□ Legal Professional

□ Informatician/informatics specialist

□ Medical Librarian/Info Specialist

□ Medical Writer/Editor

□ Medical Student

□ Nursing Student

□ Pharmacy Student

□ Other Student

□ Patient/Consumer

□ Quality Manager/Specialist

□ Other: Please Specify

Go to question 4 (2B)

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16. Do you use clinical practice guidelines in your occupation?

□ Very Frequently

□ Frequently

□ Occasionally

□ Rarely

□ Very Rarely

□ Never

If NEVER, go to question 6 (2B)

If anything other than NEVER, go to question 5 (2B)

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18. From which of the following sources have you obtained clinical practice guidelines in the past 12 months? (Check all that apply)

□ Pubmed/Medline

□ From a search using a general purpose Web search engine (e.g., Google)

□ Point-of-care Web-based resources (e.g., DynaMed, Essential Evidence Plus, EMedicine)

□ Medscape

□ U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

□ National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

□ Guidelines Advisory Committee (Canada)

□ Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)

□ Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)

□ Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC)

□ Milliman Care Guidelines®

□ Expert Consensus Guidelines® (EKS®)

□ Medical Specialty Society guidelines (e.g.,AACE, AAFP, AAN, AAO, AAOS, AAP, ACC, ACCP, ACEP, ACP, ACPM, ACR, AGA, ASCO, ASGE, IDSA, SAGES)

□ Professional or Disease Specific Society guidelines (e.g., AASM, AARC, ACS, ADA, AHA, ASPEN, BTF, HFSA, NKF, SCCM)

□ Government guidelines (e.g., CDC, NHLBI, SAMHSA, TFCPS, DoD/VHA)

□Commercial products (e.g., UpToDate; ACP Pier) (please specify)

□ Other government entities

□ Other [free text option]

Go to question 6 (2B)

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20. Would you be interested in learning more about the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ as a source for evidence based clinical practice guidelines?

□ Yes

□ No

Complete survey and provide link to NGC for interested respondents

Section 3 – Respondent Characteristics, Use of Clinical Guidelines, and Use of NGC (AWARE OF NGC and have used the NGC Web site)

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24. Where do you reside?

□ United States Northeast Region (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

□ United States Midwest Region (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas)

□ United States South Region (Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas)

□ United States West Region (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii)

□ Canada

□ Latin America

□ Europe

□ Africa

□ Asia

□ Australia/New Zealand

□ Other

Go to question 4 (3)

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26. Which one of the following occupational categories best describes you?

□ Physician

□ Physician Assistant

□ Nurse/Nurse Practitioner

□ Pharmacist

□ Dentist

□ Other Clinical Specialist

□ Hospital/Health Plan Administrator

□ Health Care Consultant

□ Health Services/Clinical Researcher

□ Guideline Developer

□ Measure Developer

□ Health Care Purchaser/Employer

□ Health Care Provider

□ Federal/State/Government Policymaker

□ Legal Professional

□ Informatician/informatics specialist

□ Medical Librarian/Info Specialist

□ Medical Writer/Editor

□ Medical Student

□ Nursing Student

□ Pharmacy Student

□ Other Student

□ Patient/Consumer

□ Quality Manager/Specialist

□ Other: Please Specify

Go to question 5 (3)

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How long have you been using the NGC web site?

□ Less than 12 months

□ 1 to 2 years

□ >2 to 3 years

□ >3 to 4 years

□ >4 to 5 years

□ More than 5 years

Go to question 6 (3)

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30. How often have you visited the NGC Web site in the past 12 months?

□ 0 times

□ 1-10 times

□ 11-25 times

□ 26-50 times

□ 50+ times

If “0 times”, go to question 7 (3)
Otherwise, skip to question 8 (3).

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If you have not visited the NGC in the past 12 months, why not?

□ No need to locate clinical guideline information

□ Needed the information, but went without it

□ Needed the information, but used other guideline source instead of NGC

□ Other, please specify: ________________________________

Go to question 8 (3)

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33. How did you learn about the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)?

□ General purpose Web search engine (e.g., Google, Yahoo, etc.)

□ AHRQ Web site

□ Link from another health-related Web site

□ Print media

□ Word of mouth, or from a colleague or friend

□ Do not recall

□ Other, please specify________________

Go to question 9 (3)

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35. From which other sources have you obtained clinical practice guidelines in the past 12 months? (Check all that apply)

□ Pubmed/Medline

□ From a search using a general purpose Web search engine (e.g., Google)

□ Point-of-care Web-based resources (e.g., DynaMed, Essential Evidence Plus, EMedicine)

□ Medscape

□ U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

□ National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

□ Guidelines Advisory Committee (Canada)

□ Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)

□ Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)

□ Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC)

□ Milliman Care Guidelines®

□ Expert Consensus Guidelines® (EKS®)

□ Medical Specialty Society guidelines (e.g.,AACE, AAFP, AAN, AAO, AAOS, AAP, ACC, ACCP, ACEP, ACP, ACPM, ACR, AGA, ASCO, ASGE, IDSA, SAGES)

□ Professional or Disease Specific Society guidelines (e.g., AASM, AARC, ACS, ADA, AHA, ASPEN, BTF, HFSA, NKF, SCCM)

□ Government guidelines (e.g., CDC, NHLBI, SAMHSA, TFCPS, DoD/VHA)

□Commercial products (e.g., UpToDate; ACP Pier) (please specify)

□ Other government entities

□ Other [free text option]

Go to question 10 (3)

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37. Overall, how would you rate your satisfaction of the NGC compared to the other guideline source you frequent most often?

□ Much less satisfied with NGC

□ Slightly less satisfied with NGC

□ Satisfaction about equal

□ Slightly more satisfied with NGC

□ Much more satisfied with NGC

Go to question 11 (3)

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Please indicate the degree to which use of the NGC Web site fulfills your needs for each of the following tasks:

	To a great extent	Somewhat	Very little	Not at all	Not a current need when using NGC
Finding clinical practice guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Comparing guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Development of a clinical practice guideline	□	□	□	□	□
Development of quality measures	□	□	□	□	□
Academic/medical research	□	□	□	□	□
School assignment	□	□	□	□	□
Professional knowledge building	□	□	□	□	□
Supporting clinical decision-making	□	□	□	□	□
Reducing errors/malpractice (risk management)	□	□	□	□	□
Rationalizing and controlling healthcare expenditures	□	□	□	□	□
Determining coverage of services	□	□	□	□	□
Other task or reason for use of NGC: (Please specify)	[Please Specify]

Go to question 12 (3)

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Please indicate the degree to which use of OTHER GUIDELINE SOURCES (other than NGC) fulfill your needs for each of the following tasks:

	To a great extent	Somewhat	Very little	Not at all	Not a current need when using OTHER SOURCE
Finding clinical practice guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Comparing guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Development of a clinical practice guideline	□	□	□	□	□
Development of quality measures
Academic/medical research	□	□	□	□	□
School assignment	□	□	□	□	□
Professional knowledge building	□	□	□	□	□
Supporting clinical decision-making	□	□	□	□	□
Reducing errors/malpractice (risk management)	□	□	□	□	□
Rationalizing and controlling healthcare expenditures	□	□	□	□	□
Determining coverage of services	□	□	□	□	□
Other task or reason for use of OTHER SOURCE: (Please specify)	[Please Specify]

Go to question 13 (3)

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How would you rate the trustworthiness of the guidelines included in NGC?

□ Very poor

□ Poor

□ Acceptable

□ Good

□ Very good

□ Don’t know

Go to question 14 (3)

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How would you rate NGC’s guideline inclusion criteria

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□ Stringent

□ Loose

□ Appropriate

□ Don’t know

Go to question 15 (3)

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NGC’s current inclusion criteria require that guidelines included on the Web site have been reviewed, revised, or developed within the last five years. How would you rate this timeframe?

□ Too long (should be reduced to 4 years)

□ Too long (should be reduced to 3 years)

□ Too long (should be reduced to 2 years)

□ Too short (should be lengthened)

□ Appropriate

□ Don’t know

Go to question 16 (3)

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How likely would you be to use any of the following enhancements to the NGC Web site

	To a Great Extent	Some-what	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Subject-specific email alerts regarding new and updated guideline releases	□	□	□	□	□
Ratings of a guideline’s quality and/or methodologic rigor (e.g., AGREE score)	□	□	□	□	□
NGC user forums (e.g., blogs, bulletin boards) that promote discussion, education, and collaboration on clinical guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
NGC summary content formatted for mobile device (e.g., cell phone, pocket PDAs) viewing	□	□	□	□	□
Additional data exporting options	□	□	□	□	□
XML output of the Complete NGC Summary for all guidelines included in NGC	□	□	□	□	□
The ability to download references into a citation manager utility (e.g., Endnote)	□	□	□	□	□
The ability to limit searches of NGC to data contained in specific fields in the NGC summary	□	□	□	□	□
The ability to export the entire NGC database	□	□	□	□	□
The ability export targeted elements of the entire NGC database	□	□	□	□	□
The ability to search archived guideline content	□	□	□	□	□
Access to archived guidelines
Other?	[Please Specify]

Go to question 17 (3)

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How likely are you to continue using the NGC Web site?

□ Definitely

□ Very likely

□ Probably

□ Possibly

□ Probably not

□ Definitely not

□ Don’t know

Go to question 18 (3)

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How likely are you to recommend the NGC Web site to your colleagues?

□ Definitely

□ Very likely

□ Probably

□ Possibly

□ Probably not

□ Definitely not

□ Don’t know

Go to the introduction to Section 4 which allows users to select the most appropriate questions to answer.

SECTION 4: The last section of this survey provides more focused questions depending on your primary use of the site. Please select the topic area that best reflects your primary role when using NGC. If you would like to answer questions for more than one topic area, you will have an opportunity to do so after you complete the section.

Guideline
Developer

Physician
Nurse
Other Healthcare Provider/Students

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Librarian

Informatics
Specialist

Researcher

Healthcare Purchaser,
Policymaker,
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Section 4 Respondent-Specific [GUIDELINE DEVELOPER (GD)]

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Do you (or your organization) submit guidelines for inclusion in the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

If NO or Don’t Know, go to question 22 (GD)

If YES, go to question 20 (GD)

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If “Yes”, in your experience, how would you rate each of the following components of the NGC process:

	Don’t know	Poor	Fair	Neutral	Good	Excellent
Your experience with the submission process	□	□	□	□	□	□
Providing copyright	□	□	□	□	□	□
NGC's preparation of the NGC Summary and abstraction of your organization' guidelines	□	□	□	□	□	□
NGC's verification process (per each guideline summary and/or annually)	□	□	□	□	□	□
NGC's dissemination of your organization’s guidelines	□	□	□	□	□	□
NGC's response to FDA warnings	□	□	□	□	□	□

Go to question 21 (GD)

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Please indicate how your organization uses the annual, NGC Summary usage reports (which identify how many times your organization's guidelines have been accessed on the NGC Web site) that it receives during NGC's Annual Verification?

□ As an indirect measure of the dissemination of your organization's guidelines?

□ Research/agenda priority setting?

□ Budget justification

□ Don't know

□ This information is not used at all

Other, PLEASE SPECIFY

Go to question 22 (GD)

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Has NGC influenced any of the following components of your organization’s guideline development program:

	To a Great Extent	Some-what	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Guideline topic selection?	□	□	□	□	□
Guideline development methodology?	□	□	□	□	□
How your organization documents or reports its guidelines?	□	□	□	□	□
How frequently your organization updates its guidelines?	□	□	□	□	□
Collaboration with other guideline developers?	□	□	□	□	□
Other?	[Please Specify]

Go to question 23 (GD)

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Does your organization create implementation tools that can be used to facilitate implementation of your organizations guidelines?

□ Always

□ Occasionally

□ Rarely

□ Never

□ Don’t know

Go to question 24 (GD)

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Does your organization create quality measures that can be used to assess the implementation of your organization's guidelines?

□ Always

□ Occasionally

□ Rarely

□ Never

□ Don’t know

Go to question 25 (GD)

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Does your organization develop guidelines in a format that can be integrated into electronic medical records or other clinical decision support tools?

□ Always

□ Occasionally

□ Rarely

□ Never

□ Don’t know

Go to question 26 (GD)

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If you answered always, occasionally, or rarely to any of the three preceding questions, has NGC had an influence on any of the following:

	To a Great Extent	Some-what	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Development of quality measures?	□	□	□	□	□
Use of quality measures?	□	□	□	□	□
Development of implementation tools?	□	□	□	□	□
Use of implementation tools?	□	□	□	□	□
Integration of your organization’s guideline into electronic medical records?	□	□	□	□	□
Integration of your organization’s guidelines into clinical decision support systems?	□	□	□	□	□
Other?	[Please Specify]

Go to question 27 (GD)

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Does your organization use any of the following AHRQ-sponsored products to inform its guideline development activities? Check all that apply

□ Systematic evidence reviews

□ Technology assessments

□ Comparative effectiveness reviews

□ Technical briefs

□ Policymaker guides

□ DEcIDE project reports

□ CERT project reports

□ Other products from AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program

□ Other [Please specify]

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

Thank you for participating in this evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. If you would like to contribute additional input, please select the most relevant feedback category:

Physician, Nurse, Other Healthcare Provider, Student

Medical Librarian

Informatics Specialist

Researcher

Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other
Measure Developer

Click here to Complete Survey

LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Exit survey

Section 4 Respondent-Specific [PHYSICIANS, NURSE, OTHER HEALTHCARE PROVIDER/STUDENT (PNOHP)]

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Has NGC influenced any of the follow:

	To a Great Extent	Somewhat	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Your clinical decision-making processes?	□	□	□	□	□
Your ongoing learning efforts?	□	□	□	□	□
Your implementation of clinical practice guidelines?	□	□	□	□	□
Your organization’s implementation of clinical practice guidelines?	□	□	□	□	□

Go to question 20 (PNOHP)

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Do you or your organization utilize electronic medical records?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Go to question 21 (PNOHP)

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Do you or your organization utilize clinical decision support tools at the point of care?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

□ Don’t know

If YES, go to question 22 (PNOHP)

If NO, go to question 23

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Would having content from the NGC Web site delivered to you at the point of care be useful to you?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

□ Don’t know

Go to question 23

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Is there a need to broaden the scope and type of guidelines (e.g., credentialing, privileging, ethical, procedural, training) included in NGC?

□ Strongly Agree

□ Agree

□ Undecided

□ Disagree

□ Strongly Disagree

□ Don’t know

Go to question 24 (PNOHP)

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If continuing medical educations were available through NGC would you take advantage of it?:

□ Definitely □ Probably □ Possibly □ Probably Not □Definitely Not

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

Thank you for participating in this evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. If you would like to contribute additional input, please select the most relevant feedback category:

Guideline Developer

Medical Librarian

Informatics Specialist

Researcher

Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other
Measure Developer

Click here to Complete Survey

LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Exit survey

Section 4 Respondent-Specific [MEDICAL LIBRARIAN (ML)]

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Has NGC influenced any of the follow:

	To a Great Extent	Somewhat	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Your data collection processes	□	□	□	□	□
Your approach to identifying guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Your ability to meet your clients needs regarding evidence based clinical practice guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Your ability to identify “high quality” guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Your ability to identify “current” guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Other?	[Please Specify]

Go to question 20 (ML)

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NGC currently uses the UMLS Metathesaurus to index the guideline summary content included on the site to support browsing and searching. Should NGC use other controlled medical vocabularies for this purpose?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

□ If Yes, Please specify_________________

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

Thank you for participating in this evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. If you would like to contribute additional input, please select the most relevant feedback category:

Guideline Developer

Physician, Nurse, Other Healthcare Provider, Student

Researcher

Informatics Specialist

Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other
Measure Developer

Click here to Complete Survey

LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Exit survey

Section 4 Respondent-Specific [RESEARCHER (RS)]

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41. Question

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Has NGC influenced any of the follow:

	To a Great Extent	Somewhat	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Data collection processes	□	□	□	□	□
Your approach to identifying guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Your ability to identify “high quality” guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Your ability to identify “current” guidelines	□	□	□	□	□
Other?	[Please Specify]

Go to question 20 (RS)

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Do you use any of the following AHRQ-sponsored products in your research efforts? Check all that apply

Products from AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program

□ Systematic evidence reviews

□ Technology assessments

□ Comparative effectiveness reviews

□ Technical briefs

□ Policymaker guides

□ DEcIDE project reports

□ CERT project reports

AHRQ Databases or Survey Data

□ MEPS: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

□ HCUP: Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project

□ HCUPnet: Interactive Tool for Hospital Statistics

□ Other [Please specify]

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

Thank you for participating in this evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. If you would like to contribute additional input, please select the most relevant feedback category:

Guideline Developer

Physician, Nurse, Other Healthcare Provider, Student

Medical Librarian

Informatics Specialist

Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other
Measure Developer

Click here to Complete Survey

LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Exit survey

Section 4 Respondent-Specific [INFORMATICS SPECIALIST (IS)]

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43. Question

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Do you currently USE or DEVELOP Web 2.0 applications (e.g., blogs, wikis. RSS) to communicate about NGC guidelines?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

□ Don’t know

Go to question 20 (IS)

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Do you utilize NGC data as an input in developing clinical information or decision support systems?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

□ Don’t know

Go to question 21 IRS)

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If you utilize NGC data to develop clinical information or decision support system, what type of data and what type of Application Programming Interface (API) would you like NGC to provide? (For example, structured interface for search query and xml output for search results)

Free Text

Go to question 22 IRS)

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Do you utilize any of NGC’s current RSS downloads?

NGC Content Inventory (e.g., NGC Summaries, Expert Commentaries, and Guideline Syntheses	Yes □	No □
"What's New" File	Yes □	No □

Go to question 23 (IS)

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Do you utilize the NGC Search Form Feature which allows developers to create search interfaces with NGC on external sites?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

□ Don’t know

Go to question 24(IS)

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Would having an NGC output for individual guidelines available as an XML file according to the Guideline Elements Model (GEM) be useful to you in your work?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

Thank you for participating in this evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. If you would like to contribute additional input, please select the most relevant feedback category:

Guideline Developer

Physician, Nurse, Other Healthcare Provider, Student

Medical Librarian

Researcher

Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other
Measure Developer

Click here to Complete Survey

LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Exit survey

Section 4 Respondent-Specific [Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other (HPPO)]

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Has NGC influenced any of the follow:

	To a Great Extent	Somewhat	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Your clinical decision-making processes?	□	□	□	□	□
Your organization’s approach to public policy making?	□	□	□	□	□
Your efforts to convert clinical information to knowledge that can be acted on?	□	□	□	□	□
Utilization management?	□	□	□	□	□
Medical reimbursement practices?	□	□	□	□	□
Your organization’s implementation of clinical practice guidelines?	□	□	□	□	□

Go to question 20 (HPPO)

20

Does your organization use any other the following AHRQ-sponsored products to inform its policy decision making? Check all that apply

□ Systematic evidence reviews

□ Technology assessments

□ Comparative effectiveness reviews

□ Technical briefs

□ Policymaker guides

□ DEcIDE project reports

□ CERT project reports

□ Other products from AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program

□ Other [Please specify]

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

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Guideline Developer

Physician, Nurse, Other Healthcare Provider, Student

Medical Librarian

Researcher

Informatics Specialist
Measure Developer

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LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

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Section 4 Respondent-Specific [Measure Developer (MD)]

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Question

Measurement Scale

Skip Pattern

19

Has NGC had an influence on any of the following:

	To a Great Extent	Somewhat	Very Little	Not at all	Don’t know
Development of quality measures?	□	□	□	□	□
Use of quality measures?	□	□	□	□	□
Other?	[Please Specify]

Go to question 20 (MD)

20

Does your organization use NGC as an input for its measure development activities?

□ To a Great Extent

□ Somewhat

□ Very Little

□ Not at All

Go to question 21 (MD)

21

Does your organization submit its measures to AHRQ’s National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC)

□Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Provide links to other Section 4 survey options; If respondent choose to end survey, go to last question before exiting.

Thank you for participating in this evaluation of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. If you would like to contribute additional input, please select the most relevant feedback category:

Guideline Developer

Physician, Nurse, Other Healthcare Provider, Student

Medical Librarian

Researcher

Informatics Specialist

Healthcare Purchaser, Policymaker, Other

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LAST Question: Have you taken this NGC Evaluation Survey within the Past 4 weeks?

□ Yes

□ No

□ Don’t know

Exit survey