Strategies to close the gap between development and implementation of guidelines
In the past decade, evidence-based clinical guidelines have become a major feature of health care. Researchers and clinicians in many countries have established programs to summarise the evidence for managing specific health problems and to disseminate practice guidelines.
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- 1 Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 2 National Institute of Clinical Studies, Melbourne, VIC.
Correspondence: r.grol@wok.umcn.nl
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