Some reservations about clinical guidelines.
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Some reservations about clinical guidelines.
Clinical guidelines are the current fashion. There are perhaps four main grounds for this. First, the realisation that the results of clinical research are not taken up promptly and translated into everyday clinical practice. For example, meta-analysis of all the trials for thrombolysis for myocardial infarction showed that there was good evidence that thrombolysis reduced mortality by the mid-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.72.1.70