The Principles and Practice of Primary Care and Family Medicine: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

by John Fry and Nat Yuen

Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists. Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by which doctors and other health care professionals can be made more accountable to their patients. But how can clinicians tell whether a guideline has authority and whether or not it should be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857750454
• ISBN13: 9781857750454
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"