Reaction to Jonathan Silverman

摘要

Silverman, Kurz and Draper [1] argue that in the discussion of our paper "Communication guidelines as a learning tool: An exploration of user preferences in general practice" [2] we incorrectly refer to the Calgary Cambridge guides [3] as an example of a guideline which has no temporal sequence. We agree that we should have mentioned that part of the Calgary Cambridge guides indeed has a temporal sequence. The Calgary Cambridge guides are mostly temporally organised, but not strictly so. In our paper, we state that with regard to the structure of a guideline, the users in our study prefer that recommendations are organised in conceptually different, chronological parts, each with different tasks. This statement refers to all recommendations within a guideline.