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. 1999 Feb 20;318(7182):527-30.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7182.527.

Clinical guidelines: potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines

S H Woolf  1 , R Grol, A Hutchinson, M Eccles, J Grimshaw
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Review

Clinical guidelines: potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines

S H Woolf et al. BMJ. .
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