Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: VIII. How to Use Clinical Practice Guidelines B. What Are the Recommendations and Will They Help You in Caring for Your Patients?

CLINICAL SCENARIO At the conclusion of our first article on practice guidelines1 in this series, we left you examining the full text of a practice guideline2 that could help you marshal a convincing response to a colleague who disagrees with your approach to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women. Later that day, chatting with another colleague, you mention the disagreement. He shrugs, and avows, "It's entirely a matter of …