Value for money in changing clinical practice: Should decisions about guidelines and implementation strategies be made sequentially or simultaneously?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-216

  Hoomans, Ties ^a   Severens, Johan L ^a,b   Evers, Silvia M A A ^a   Ament, Andre J H A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical guidelines; Clinical practice change; Economic evaluation; Guideline implementation; Health care decision analysis. (Med Decis Making 2009; 29: 207 "216); Health care decision making; Implementation strategies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MONEY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 64549132557     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X08327397     Document Type: Article

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