title: A response to Birch and Gafni--some reasons to be cheerful about NICE.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School, New York, NY 10031, USA. goldmr@med.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Marthe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gold
authors.forename: Stirling
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bryan
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom