J. Except. People 2020, 9(2):95-107

Czech national project of clinical practice guidelines development and its implementation in special education

Lucia Kantorová1,2, Miloslav Klugar1,2,3
1 The Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre), Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 3, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Czech Health Research Council, Ruská 85, 100 05 Prague, Czech Republic
3 Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Palackého nám. 375/4, 128 01 Praha, Czech Republic

This statement paper provides a brief and clear background to the evidence-based medicine concept, systematic reviews and the development of clinical practice guidelines using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) system and focuses on their application in the field of special education.
Its main objective is to suggest ways of applying clinical practice guidelines in the field of special education. The paper presents the first Czech national project for developing clinical practice guidelines mainly in the field of medicine and clinical practice with the main investigator being the Czech Health Research Council (AZV ČR). Some of the guidelines prepared within the project are relevant to special educators and the paper suggests that special teachers use the recommendations in their practice and in higher education. Moreover, it proposes that it is possible and useful to develop guidelines using the rigor of the GRADE methodology as described above, for issues directly pertaining to the field of special education, or education in general. In that process, it may be necessary to identify the challenges typical for the field of education and to suggest possible solutions. Finally, recommendations for special educators, for future research and for policy-makers are formulated. Specifically, the paper suggests that policy-makers, such as the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, develop national strategies for special-educational diagnostics and intervention based on rigorous methodology as described on the example of the Czech national project of guideline development in medicine and place special focus on the ethical aspects, social impacts and values and preferences of target populations.

Keywords: clinical practice guidelines, GRADE, special education, special educational needs, national educational policies
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The paper was prepared in collaboration with the Palacky University Evidence-Based Education working team: Mentee Centre, Faculty of Education, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

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Kantorová, L., & Klugar, M. (2020). Czech national project of clinical practice guidelines development and its implementation in special education. Journal of Exceptional People, 9(17), 95-107
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