In the current era of evidence-based guidelines, do consensus-based guidelines still have a place?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 343-344

  Waclawski, Eugene R ^a   Madan, Ira ^b  

^a Hawkhead Rd   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS Plus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL STUDY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MANAGER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLISHING; RETIREMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; VIBRATION SYNDROME; WORKPLACE;

CONSENSUS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 23844447783     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi095     Document Type: Editorial

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