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What Are Guidelines

Practice guidelines ...

... are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. [1]

... can simply be broad statements or be very detailed based on literature review as well as expert opinion. Typically, clinical guidelines reflect more than local consensus ... [2]

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

  1. http://fermat.nap.edu/books/0309045894/html/index.html
  2. http://www.aapmr.org/hpl/pracguide/terms.htm