The Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are instruments to support medical decisions, which have been systematically developed with the aim of optimizing health care under specific clinical circumstances.
CPGs are a set of recommendations developed in a systematic way to help professionals and patients to make decisions about the most appropriate health care and to select the most appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic options when dealing with a health problem or a specific clinical condition.
The CPGs respond to the need for concise, reliable, truthful and updated information; Its implementation directs clinical care processes towards greater consistency and efficiency (3) and its development aims to resolve the uncertainty and ignorance of physicians about the diversity of clinical management.