Clinical practice guidelines: Culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1360-1361

  Fein, I Alan ^a   Corrato, Robert R ^a  

^a Executive Health Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Evidencebased medicine; Guidelines; Quality; Strategy

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICARE; PEER REVIEW; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 41649083859     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31816a1260     Document Type: Editorial

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