Do clinical practice guidelines improve processes or outcomes in primary care?

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 243-246

  Lesho, Emil P ^a   Myers, Cris P ^a   Ott, Monica ^a   Winslow, Constance ^a   Brown, Joan E ^a  

^a Army Medical Department Center and School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; ASTHMA; COUNSELING; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROALBUMINURIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 19544371049     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.3.243     Document Type: Review

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