This study aims to understand the current status and problem of clinical practice guidelines development and dissemination in Korea, and to identify collaborative research demands to improve the quality of future clinical practice guidelines and guideline implementation. 

The specific research objectives for developing clinical practice guidelines and understanding the dissemination status of these guidelines are as follows:

1) Collect clinical practice guidelines in Korea and understand their development status

2) Evaluate the methodological quality of the recently developed clinical practice guidelines and establish strategy for improvement

3) Understand how the main clinical practice guidelines disseminate and propose improvement plans accordingly