Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 379-395 , September 2006

The resistance to changing guidelines – what are the challenges and how to meet them

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2006.02.005

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 379-395 , September 2006

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