Evaluating the message: The relationship between compliance rate and the subject of a practice guideline

Medical Care

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 202-213

  Grilli, Roberto ^a   Lomas, Jonathan ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Practice guidelines; Quality of care; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DENTISTRY; GYNECOLOGY; MEDICINE; OBSTETRICS; ONCOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; STANDARD;

CARDIOLOGY; DENTISTRY; GYNECOLOGY; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028386396     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199403000-00002     Document Type: Article

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