Benefits
Fast & Easy - Access is at healthcare clinicians' fingertips from any web-ready computer within in the organization.
Both novice clinicians new to the care environment and experienced caregivers can benefit from the point-and-click knowledge that CPM Guidelines provide. The user-friendly interface includes a simple search box with powerful capabilities.
Users can search by exact phrase, key word, abbreviation, potential problem and more with filters that allow for search by target population, healthcare profession or specialty. Specific information can be pinpointed quickly and easily within the guidelines that reflect the scope of practice, critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the context of the patient's medical condition/health issue.
Guidelines are updated on a continuous cycle, so you can be assured of the most recent evidence to help improve patient outcomes.
Credible - Provides more than 200 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines with complete bibliographies and links to research literature, professional organizations and regulatory bodies, such as Joint Commission and CMS Core Measures.
For more than two decades, CPM has been the world leader in developing safe, consistent, interdisciplinary guidelines for use across the full spectrum of healthcare.
Today, more than 200 CPM clinical practice guidelines are available. Developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, they represent an aggregation of the most accurate, up-to-date information available to support the professional processes used to deliver care by the interdisciplinary team. Guidelines are tested and validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals and continuously updated to offer the most recent evidence to help improve patient outcomes.
Comprehensive - Designed not just for the individual, but for the entire interdisciplinary team, integrating evidence-based best practices for each team member into a single comprehensive guideline.
All clinicians need evidence-based content to support their practice. By integrating evidence-based recommendations and best practices directly into the clinical workflow, CPM Guidelines provides interdisciplinary guideline recommendations for documentation integration and patient individualization with full documentation that can be accessed and monitored by everyone on the healthcare team.
This helps to prevent omissions in the care process by allowing practitioners fulfill their specific duties while improving communication across the interdisciplinary team. The result is safe, consistent, patient-centered care.
CPM Guidelines covers medical, surgical and human response diagnoses in the the following disciplines:
- Nursing
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Language Pathology
- Respiratory Therapy
- Social Work/Services
- Dietitian
- Pastoral Care
- Child Life
Progressive - Supports healthcare organizations in introducing evidence-based tools at the point of care for daily use to meet regulatory standards and patient safety initiatives.
The call for evidence-based decision-making and practice environments has been clearly stated by the Institute of Medicine, regulatory standards and patient safety initiatives. CPM Guidelines offers a standardized evidence-based approach to patient care around medical, surgical, and human response diagnoses.
This helps your organization to improve communication and promote meaningful contributions by each member of the interdisciplinary team. The development of collaborative working relationships can be vital in improving patient outcomes while meeting regulatory standards and quality/safety initiatives.
Proven - Each guideline endures CPM Resource Center's rigorous process of developing the highest quality evidence-based resources, and is tested, validated, and continuously improved and updated in a Consortium of nearly 300 hospitals across the U.S. and Canada.
Clinical guidelines are only as strong as the process through which they're created. CPM's process combines a rigorous, scientifically based development methodology with a broad-based consensual validation involving literally thousands of practitioners.
This unique methodology ensures that CPM's guidelines are the most advanced, comprehensive and intensely scrutinized decision-support tools in the world.
