clinical practice

form or join a group

Groups form round a topic, and can share resources and discuss their work.

Anyone can start or join an open group and take part in the discussion, help review the templates, and get email notification of messages or updates.

The group has core developers who control changes to the template.

Templates can be shared across groups, for example, a smoking screening tool could be developed by an expert group, but might be part of a larger health assessment developed by another group.

develop a tool and make a template

The group core developers agree what the tool is for, what should be included in it, who it is for and add any supporting guidance material.

ClinicalTemplates.org will support user-friendly tools for building templates as simple forms or we can help you build your first template.

A group can develop any number of templates for their area of expertise.

share it, get feedback and improve it

The template can then be reviewed by group members and comments can be added to help with revision. The core developers can decide to accept comments, make changes and publish a new version.

If the group is working as part of a larger organisation, that organisation may use its own methods for approving templates.

Each group can decide to make its work public, or only make the latest version available. The group maintains ownership to update the tool in the future.

publish it

ClinicalTemplates.org is indexed by web search engines like Google, and can be referenced in library systems.

Being web-based, your work is available to anyone with internet access, and your templates can also be published in PDF format so they can be printed and made available to anyone.

We recommend use of Creative Commons licensing which allows you to share your work, while requiring you are credited with it, and protecting it from commercial use without your agreement.

tie it to information standards

ClinicalTemplates.org is tracking international standards and will evolve tools to let you connect your templates to these standards as they develop.

Our aim is to make using national and international standards as pain-free as possible for non-technical people.

Our team is actively involved with developing these standards and committed to supporting them.