title: Management of science.
abstract: Another phase of the UK's National Health Service reforms is becoming visible, at least in outline--namely, the management of scientific knowledge in medicine. The strategy has several promising aspects but also contains serious threats, which require debate before new practices harden into dogma.
authors.affiliation: Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Charlton
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012586:Science / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom