title: Practice guidelines: a piece of the quality puzzle.
abstract: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) librarians provided support to the first thirteen panels sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research by conducting literature searches, providing document delivery, and preparing bibliographic databases. Since then, NLM has moved into a consulting role, helping panels link up with local members of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. NLM staff members have also prepared several documents useful to the development and dissemination of practice guidelines.
authors.affiliation: National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland 20894.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cahn
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D003142:Communication; D016245:Librarians; D008523:MEDLARS; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D009862:Online Systems; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality