Predictors of high quality clinical practice guidelines: Examples in oncology

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-132

  Fervers, Beatrice ^a,b   Burgers, Jako S ^a,c   Haugh, Margaret C ^a,b   Brouwers, Melissa ^d,e   Browman, George ^f   Cluzeau, Francoise ^g   Philip, Thierry ^a,b  

^a Fed Natle Ctr Lutte Contre Cancer   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Program in Evidence based Care   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^g ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guidelines; International; Network; Oncology quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 16844368771     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzi011     Document Type: Article

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