How to write a guideline from start to finish : a handbook for healthcare professionals / Richard Bowker ... [et al.] ; with a contribution from Hannah-Rose Douglas. - Edinburgh : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, 2008. - ix, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / M. Atkinson -- Developing a national guideline / T. Stephenson -- Developing local guidelines / M. Atkinson -- Getting started - or working back to front / R. Bowker -- Forming clinical questions / R. Bowker -- Searching for evidence / R. Bowker -- Critical appraisal and building evidence tables / R. Bowker -- Consensus processes / K. Armon -- The Delphi consensus process / K. Armon -- Health economics / H.-R. Douglas -- Making recommendations / M. Lakhanpaul -- The audit package / R. MacFaul -- Appraisal / R. Bowker -- Dissemination and implementation - or getting the message across / M. Lakhanpaul -- Legal issues / R. Bowker.

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Evidence-based medicine.

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