title: Why clinical practice guidelines?
authors.affiliation: Penrose-St. Francis Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States