Objective: To assess internists' familiarity with, confidence in, and attitudes about practice
guidelines issued by various organizations. Design: Cross-sectional, self-administered survey. …

CLINICAL SCENARIO You are relieved to find that the last patient in your busy primary care
clinic is a previously well 48-year-old woman with acute dysuria. There has been no …

Clinicians increasingly are urged to integrate preventive services into their clinical practices.
To facilitate this process, several groups have developed practice guidelines for preventing …

OBJECTIVE: To assess Canadian physicians' confidence in, attitudes about and preferences
regarding clinical practice guidelines. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, self-administered mailed …

… Hayward was supported in part by the Arthur Bond Award from the Physicians Services …
Hayward RS, Laupacis A. Initiating, conducting and maintaining guidelines development …

CLINICAL SCENARIO At the conclusion of our first article on practice guidelines 1 in this
series, we left you examining the full text of a practice guideline 2 that could help you marshal a …

Recommendations are proposed for preparing more informative abstracts of articles describing
clinical practice guidelines. Information about the development and content of guidelines …

LE MOMENT EST-IL VENU DE LAISSER TOMBER les guides de pratique clinique (GPC)?
Comme le signalent le Dr Graham Worrall et ses collègues (page 1705), les données …

… Leena Gupta, Jeanette E Ward and Robert SA Hayward … Gupta L, Ward J, Hayward
RSA. Future directions for clinical practice guidelines: needs, lead agencies and potential …

Patient management decisions rarely incorporate standardized health status assessments,
since accurate and reliable measures are difficult and expensive to obtain. In prior research …