Improving clinical practice guidelines - The answer is more clinical research

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1402-1403

  Deresinski, Stan ^a   File Jr , Thomas M ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeast Ohio Medical University   (United States)

^c SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FUNDING; HUMAN; INFECTION; LETTER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 80051643874     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.345     Document Type: Letter

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