Abstract
Differences among the guidelines imply important variation in allocation of preventive interventions. To make informed decisions, physicians should use only the recommendations from rigorously developed guidelines.
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- Year
- 2010
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 170
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-27
- Citations
- 135
- Access
- Closed
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- 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.434