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"Potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines"-Woolf et al., '99

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Free full text: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114973/

Clinical guidelines: potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines.

BMJ. 1999 Feb 20;318(7182):527-30.

Woolf SH, Grol R, Hutchinson A, Eccles M, Grimshaw J.

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Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, Virginia 22033, USA.
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I just read this after seeing another patient quote it. As papers go, it is not that long (4 printed pages).

Main section I found of interest: Potential limitations and harms of guidelines.

Guidelines are increasingly important in many countries e.g. NICE guidelines in the UK.

Guidelines and (so-called) evidence-based medicine are closely linked so people interested in problems with evidence-based medicine might be interested in this.
 
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