Guideline quality and guideline content: Are they related?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-4

  Burgers, Jako S ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDITY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 29744453913     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.059345     Document Type: Editorial

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