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Clinical practice guidelines aim to contribute to efficient and high quality care. 1 Efforts are already made to overcome barriers to implementation such as lack of credibility because of financial or intellectual conflicts of interests, and clinicians' inability to change habits or keep up to date with new recommendations. However, what is rarely acknowledged is that implementing guidelines may require appreciable clinician time and therefore have considerable opportunity costs in the clinical encounter. Including an assessment of time needed to implement might alter the recommendations of guideline committees and help clinicians to prioritise.

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Author

Minna Johansson; Gordon Guyatt; Victor Montori

Publisher

BMJ

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)