Methodologists are not qualified to write clinical guidelines

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9698, 2009, Pages 1326-

  Van Zundert, Jan ^a,b   Van Boxem, Koen ^c   van Kleef, Maarten ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Bornem en Willebroek ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; LETTER; MEDICAL EXPERT; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; NOTE; STANDARD;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 70349998432     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61817-1     Document Type: Letter

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