{"id":173,"date":"2013-09-17T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T09:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-09-17T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T09:20:28","slug":"scottish-intercollegiate-guidelines-network-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/2013\/09\/17\/scottish-intercollegiate-guidelines-network-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and apps"},"content":{"rendered":"
“The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network<\/a> (SIGN) develops evidence based clinical practice guidelines for the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland. SIGN guidelines are derived from a systematic review of the scientific literature and are designed as a vehicle for accelerating the translation of new knowledge into action to meet our aim of reducing variations in practice, and improving patient-important outcomes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you want to know about a particular health condition the guidelines can be very helpful for giving you an overview and an indication of potential therapies that may be available. For those in Social Care\/Work they could help you understand treatment plans of your service users e.g. if your autistic clients have comorbid<\/a> conditions such as epilepsy<\/a>\u00a0or depression<\/a>. There are over 100 guidelines available and the guidelines are provided as downloadable PDF documents.
\nThere is a free\u00a0SIGN\u00a0Guidelines app [Android]<\/a> \u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0SIGN\u00a0Guidelines app [Apple]<\/a>
\nThey currently have one guideline and an app specifically for autism in children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAssessment, diagnosis and clinical interventions for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders<\/a>\u00a0[Guideline\u00a098]
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- A booklet for parents and carers in large print and in Gaelic and other languages.<\/span><\/li>\n
- A booklet for young people.<\/span><\/li>\n
- British Sign Language DVD of the patient version is available<\/span><\/li>\n
- SIGN Autism Patient Guide [Android patient app<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>\n
- SIGN Autism Patient Guide [Apple patient app<\/a>]
\nContains both a guide for parents and carers and a guide for young people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) develops evidence based clinical practice guidelines for the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland. SIGN guidelines are derived from a systematic review of the scientific literature and are designed as a vehicle for accelerating the translation of new knowledge into action to meet our aim of reducing variations in … Continue reading “Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and apps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[9987],"tags":[9987,9751,8,9968,5789,6181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}