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THE VALUE OF SURGICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES: COMMENT
Author(s) -
Hughes P. D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1998.tb04821.x
Subject(s) - medicine , protocol (science) , value (mathematics) , alternative medicine , family medicine , pathology , machine learning , computer science
In the article, ‘The Value of Surgical Practice Guidelines’, Bruce Barraclough states ‘the guidelines are not a protocol’. 1 However, I disagree. Such guidelines rapidly become protocol and pressure is placed on clinicians to follow such cookbook medicine. The National Cancer Control Initiative (NCCI), a Federal Department of Health‐funded organizations set up to advise the Federal Minister for Health, has been conducting workshops around the country.