[Experience of the Mexican National Health System in the development of clinical practice guidelines].

Background: Clinical practice guidelines are tools that have been able to streamline decisions made in health issues and to decrease the gap between clinical action and scientific evidence.

Objective: The objective of the study is to share the experience in the development and to update the guidelines by the National Health System of Mexico.

Material And Methods: The methodology in the development of the guidelines consists of 5 phases: prioritisation, establishment of work groups, development by adoption of international guidelines of de novo, validation and integration in the Master catalogue of clinical practice guidelines for its dissemination.