Raising the quality of rheumatology management recommendations: Lessons from the EULAR process 10 years after provision of standard operating procedures

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1392-1396

  Colebatch Bourn, Alexandra N ^a,b   Conaghan, Philip G ^c   Arden, Nigel K ^d,e   Cooper, Cyrus ^d,e   Dougados, Maxime ^f   Edwards, Christopher J ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b YEOVIL DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guideline; Health care quality assessment; Rheumatology

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84939557977     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keu525     Document Type: Article

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