Analysis of the practice guidelines of the Dutch College of General Practitioners with respect to the use of blood tests

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 322-331

  Van Wijk, Marc A M ^b   Bohnen, Arthur M ^a   Van Der Lei, Johan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

EID: 0032787994     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060322     Document Type: Article

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