title: Guidelines for clinical practice: what they are and why they count.
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Lohr
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D026686:Beneficence; D032921:Consensus; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D035082:Federal Government; D006296:Health Services / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D026684:Personal Autonomy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality