Promoting change in clinical care.
BMJ Quality & SafetyPublished 1 March 1992Open access
Barbara Stocking
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This paper has assumed that clinicians want to do what is best for their patients but that what is thought to be right is very varied, and that if clinicians are given sound evidence that a practice is better they will adopt it or stop a practice shown to be of little or no benefit or even to be harmful.
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