Center for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
Brief History of the Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine - Center for Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (AUFM - CEBCPGs)
[One of the affiliated centers of the Central Directorate of Quality, Internal Auditing, and Training (the Former Healthcare Quality and Accreditation Unit: HCQAU) of Alexandria University Hospitals (AUHs)].
The AUFM-CEBCPGs roots back to the vision and dream of Professor Dr. Mahmoud M. El-Zalabany, Professor of Pediatrics and the Dean of AUFM to establish a state-of-the-art national training and resource center for adaptation, development, evaluation and implementation of Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (EBCPGs) which constitute an essential pre-requisite for accreditation of healthcare services in Alexandria University Hospitals.
The very first initiative in this long path was the idea of the thesis presented for the Master Degree in Pediatrics that started in 2006 supervised by Prof. Dr. Mahmoud , Prof. Dr. Tarek Omar and Prof. Dr. Nabil Dowidar and presented by Dr. Yasser Sami Amer with the title of; “Adaptation of international clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of the commonest emergency attending the emergency department of Alexandria university children’s hospital” which then bloomed into the official foundation of the AUFM-CEBCPGs in November 2008 as one of the first affiliated centers and major activities of the HCQU-AUHs , which was itself officially founded in August 2008 also based on the vision and the first official innovative initiative of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Zalabany with Prof. Dr. Tarek Omar and the founding committee with the major objective of developing and implementing a comprehensive program of healthcare accreditation that will introduce a new quality management tool, such that safety and the quality of medical services delivered to the university hospitals is enhanced and sustained.
The AUFM-CEBCPG was initiated during the procedures of organization and establishment of the HCQU-AUHs, it was presented as a concept paper prepared by Dr. Yasser Sami H. A. Amer and Dr. Hossam Ashour H. Dhorgham to the Dean of AUFM, Prof Dr Mahmoud El-Zalabany who at once recommended them to proceed to implement such project and to form a founding committee which included members from the AUFM (Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Zalabany, Prof. Dr. Tarek E.I. Omar, Prof. Dr. Afaf Gaber Ibrahim) and from the Medical Research Institute (Prof. Dr. Nabil M. Lotfy Dowidar) and from the AUCH & HCQU (Dr. Hossam Ashour and Dr. Yasser Sami)and from the Academy of Healthcare Sciences (AHS) of the AUFM (Eng. Ahmed M. Mourady) who together arranged several meetings to formulate the organization, structure and bylaws of the CEBCPGs.
The Center was officially founded in November 15th, 2008 to be the first of its kind in Egypt.
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