Guidelines

Overview

BSR's 'gold standard' clinical guidelines support evidence-based clinical practice in rheumatology.

Our guidelines are developed using the methods and processes outlined in Creating Clinical Guidelines: British Society for Rheumatology Protocol and overseen by our Guidelines Steering Group.

Our guidelines grow out of the collaborative efforts of many members and non-members, specialists and generalists and people with lived experience of the topic being covered. We also involve trainees in our guideline working groups as an important educational opportunity.

All guidelines are published in Rheumatology under an ‘open access’ licence.

To develop our guidelines, we partner with the University of Keele to support the evidence review process.
NICE provided accreditation for our clinical guideline development process up until NICE accreditation was no longer available, at the end of 2023.

Our guidelines grow out of the collaborative efforts of many members and non-members, specialists and generalists and people with lived experience of the topic being covered. We also involve trainees in our guideline working groups as an important educational opportunity.

Listen to our recent podcast episode with guideline working group members for tips on applying to join.

Current guidelines

Guidelines in development

Guidelines under revision

Implementing guidelines

We want to hear your experiences of using the guidelines to help us spot patterns, create case studies and find solutions to problems.

How has care in your unit improved through implementation? What clinical issues have you resolved by using a guideline? Are you or your unit having problems implementing any part of the guidelines?

If there is anything else you would like to share with us about planning, creating, auditing or using the guidelines, please email guidelines@rheumatology.org.uk.

Overview

BSR's 'gold standard' clinical guidelines support evidence-based clinical practice in rheumatology.

Get involved in our guidelines

Current guidelines

Guidelines in development

Guidelines under revision

Implementing guidelines