Editorial: Clinical guidelines: To follow or folly? You decide

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 824-826

  Glick, Michae ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ENDOCARDITIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68649114410     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2009.0263     Document Type: Editorial

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