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Do guidelines create uniformity in medical practice?
This article aimed to test the general hypothesis that guidelines create uniformity, or reduce variation, in medical practice. Medical practice variation has policy interest and is one of the reasons for developing guidelines. The development and implementation of guidelines was considered in the broader context of processes of rationalization. We focused on the influence of voluntary guideline...
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A large number of researchers have studied the behavior of infilled frames. It is evident through their studies that infill walls can provide both an economic and practical means for the lateral stability of framed structures and a viable alternative for retrofitting existing structures to resist seismic, wind, and blast loads. Despite this, there is reluctance from the engineering community to...
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Department of Physiology and Experimental Medicine [J.D.W., J.L.], The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada; Thornhill Research Inc. [S.D.], Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2E8, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology [J.A.F], University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics [K.S.L], University of Western Ontario, ...
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Until 1900 death rates in middle age were high and worsening (Figure 1a), but about the turn of the century sanitary reform began to show results in this age group. Mortality rates for both men and women began to fall, and they continued to fall fairly sharply until the 1920s. Then something happened. Female mortality maintained its downward course; but the reduction of male mortality slackened...
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In this contribution we put forward a novel hypothesis concerning the aetiology of Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus. The concept underlying our hypothesis is that poor foetal and early post-natal nutrition imposes mechanisms of nutritional thrift upon the growing individual. We propose that one of the major long-term consequences of inadequate early nutrition is impaired develop...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1912
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)57385-7