Clinical guidelines: Using clinical guidelines
BMJPublished 13 March 1999Open access
Gene Feder, M Eccles, Richard Grol, Clive Griffiths, Jeremy Grimshaw
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This is the last in a series of four articles on issues in the development and use of clinical guidelines, and how healthcare organisations and individual clinicians can use clinical guidelines to improve clinical effectiveness.
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