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Sepsis guideline implementation: benefits, pitfalls and possible solutions

Author: Niranjan Kissoon

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 2/2014

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Clinical practice guidelines are useful in improving quality of care and outcomes, reducing inappropriate variation in practice, promoting efficient use of resources, informing and empowering patients and informing public policy. However, difficulties arise when guidelines are poorly introduced into routine daily practice and, as a consequence, many patients do not receive the care intended or receive harmful or unnecessary care [1]. …

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Title: Sepsis guideline implementation: benefits, pitfalls and possible solutions
Author: Niranjan Kissoon
Publication date: 01-04-2014
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue 2/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc13774

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