Guidelines for Guidelines: Are They Up to the Task? A Comparative Assessment of Clinical Practice Guideline Development Handbooks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ansari, Shabnam ^a   Rashidian, Arash ^b,c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSULTATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SCORING SYSTEM;

HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870044877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049864     Document Type: Article

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