Validity of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality clinical practice guidelines: how quickly do guidelines become outdated?

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Published in JAMA on September 26, 2001

Authors

P G Shekelle1, E Ortiz, S Rhodes, S C Morton, M P Eccles, J M Grimshaw, S H Woolf

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1: RAND, 1700 Main St, PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA. shekelle@rand.org

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