Making sense of clinical guidelines
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Making sense of clinical guidelines

Mary McClarey Research and Development Officer (Clinical Effectiveness), RCN DQI Programme, RCN Institute, Oxford
Lesley Duff Research and Development Officer, RCN DQI Programme, RCN Institute, London

In a companion article to their paper on clinical effectiveness (McClarey and Duff 1997), the authors discuss the issues surrounding clinical guidelines. How they are developed and how they can be adapted to local practice are described to allow practitioners to base their practice on the most up-to-date research evidence

Nursing Standard. 12, 1, 31-35. doi: 10.7748/ns1997.09.12.1.31.c2482

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