Survey of preferred guideline attributes: What helps to make guidelines more useful for emergency health practitioners?

International Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Aboulsoud, Samar ^a,b,c   Huckson, Sue ^d   Wyer, Peter ^e   Lang, Eddy ^f  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^b HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society   (Australia)

^e Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNET; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84886421113     PISSN: 18651372     EISSN: 18651380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1865-1380-5-42     Document Type: Article

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