Evidence based medicine, guidelines and common sense
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Evidence based medicine, guidelines and common sense.
The American Geriatrics Society [1] has recently published a set of guidelines intended to help clinicians prioritize and attend to the particular needs of older people with diabetes mellitus. This is a welcome synthesis of the disappointingly sparse worldwide literature specifically targeted towards the needs of older diabetic people. The guidelines generally emphasise that the goals of diabet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh116