Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?
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Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?
Clinician dependent costs are the costs of care that are under the discretion of the healthcare provider. These costs include the costs of drugs, tests and investigations, and discretionary outpatient visits and impatient stays. The purpose of this review was to summarize recent evidence, relevant to both developed and developing countries on whether evidence based clinical guidelines can chang...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Research Policy and Systems
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1478-4505
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-9-24