Are global guidelines desirable, feasible and necessary?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-3

  Fried, M ^a   Quigley, E M M ^b   Hunt, R H ^c   Guyatt, G ^d   Anderson, B O ^e   Bjorkman, D J ^f   Farthing, M J G ^g   Fedail, S S ^h   Green Thompson, R ⁱ   Hampton, J ^j   Krabshuis, J ^k   Laine, L ^l   Horton, R ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^h Fedail Medical Center   (Sudan)

ⁱ KwaZulu Natal University   (South Africa)

^j QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^k Highland Data ^*  (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HORMONE; OCTREOTIDE; TERLIPRESSIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 38049040896     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0994     Document Type: Review

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