Is Guideline Tyranny Causing Guideline Anarchy? (Part I)
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The Tyranny of Guidelines
Anybody practicing medicine today needs to be serious about medical guidelines.
The original idea behind medical guidelines was to provide (oddly enough) a guide to physicians in caring for patients with a particular medical problem. That is, they suggested a generally preferred approach to medical care in view [...]
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