Journal article
Using a Practice Guideline for Safely Shortening Hospital Stay for Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Hemorrhage
Abstract
Making optimal medical decisions within the constraints of a given health care system requires integrating knowledge, experience, compassion, and patient preferences with the best available clinical research. Evidence-based practice guidelines are an increasingly popular means of helping clinicians assimilate research results into practice. In this issue of JAMA, Hay and colleagues1 describe a practice guideline developed to determine the time …
Authors
Peterson WL; Cook DJ
Journal
JAMA, Vol. 278, No. 24, pp. 2186–2187
Publisher
American Medical Association (AMA)
Publication Date
December 24, 1997
DOI
10.1001/jama.1997.03550240076039
ISSN
0098-7484