Controversy over clinical guidelines: Listen to the evidence, not the noise

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 361-362

  Guallar, Eliseo ^a   Laine, Christine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CHOLESTEROL, LDL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84895792670     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/m14-0112     Document Type: Editorial

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