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Advantages and limitations of clinical guidelines: can we change clinicians' behaviour?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Alfonso Mele  and
Giovanni De Girolamo
Alfonso Mele
Affiliation:
Center of Epidemiology, Health Surveillance and Promotion, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome (Italy)
Giovanni De Girolamo*
Affiliation:
Health Care Research Agency, Emilia-Romagna Region, Bologna (Italy)
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. G. de Girolamo, Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regionale, Viale Aldo Moro 21, 40121 Bologna (Italy). Fax: 39-051-6397053 E-mail: gdegirolamo@regione.emilia-romagna.it
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 263 - 266
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