Abstract

Canadian physicians, although generally positive about guidelines and confident in those developed by clinicians, have not yet integrated the use of guidelines into their practices to a large extent. Our results suggest that respected organizations and opinion leaders should be involved in the development of guidelines and that the acceptability of any proposed format and medium for guidelines presentation should be pretested.

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Year
1997
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article
Volume
156
Issue
12
Pages
1715-23
Citations
244
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Robert Hayward, Gordon Guyatt, Karen-Ann Moore et al. (1997). Canadian physicians' attitudes about and preferences regarding clinical practice guidelines.. PubMed , 156 (12) , 1715-23.