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Clinical Practice Guidelines Directions for a New Program (1990) / Chapter Skim
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... and the implementation or application of guidelines after they are developed. It also differentiates between evaluating the impact of clinical practices and evaluating the impact of practice guidelines.
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... One further questionable expectation, which is sometimes explicit but often unstated, is that practice guidelines will help control health care costs.3 They may not. The reasons for caution on this point are several.
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  • expert panels

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  • clinical applicability
  • clinical flexibility
  • practice guideline
  • care costs

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  • health benefit


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