ArticleClinical and public health guidelines2024
Why all clinical guideline recommendations are 'Conditional'.
Article in Clinical and public health guidelines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Self, Others and Context: Reframing Clinical Reasoning as a Socio-Cognitive Practice.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Review
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- Pan-European Fragile Populations Cohort for COVID-19: What Worked, What Didn't, and Lessons Learned.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation SocietyArticle
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Abstract
The impact of clinical guidelines on practitioner behaviour and clinical care remains in doubt.The acceptability of a 5- or 10-year delay in producing a 'strong' clinically important recommendation is unlikely to hold.Practitioners think holistically, in contrast to the analytical thinking that characterizes clinical research.Rapidly accessible, flexible, 'knowledge-in-practice-in-context' cannot be simply replaced by a focused piece of new research or guideline.
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