A review of clinical practice guidelines found that they were often based on evidence of uncertain relevance to primary care patients

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1251-1257

  Steel, Nicholas ^a   Abdelhamid, Asmaa ^a   Stokes, Tim ^b   Edwards, Helen ^a   Fleetcroft, Robert ^a   Howe, Amanda ^a   Qureshi, Nadeem ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guidelines; Health technology assessment; Primary care; Quality of evidence; Review; Strength of recommendations

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNCERTAINTY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84908244404     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.05.020     Document Type: Article

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