Optimizing care in osteoporosis: The Canadian quality circle project
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Optimizing care in osteoporosis: The Canadian quality circle project
BACKGROUND While the Osteoporosis Canada 2002 Canadian guidelines provided evidence based strategies in preventing, diagnosing, and managing this condition, publication and distribution of guidelines have not, in and of themselves, been shown to alter physicians clinical approaches. We hypothesize that primary care physicians enrolled in the Quality Circle project would change their patient man...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2474
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-130