Guidelines are written, but are they followed?

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 400-402

  Misra, Shivani ^a   Barth, Julian H ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84890168244     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004563213498712     Document Type: Editorial

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