title: [Critical issues and limits in the production and implementation of clinical practice guidelines].
abstract: The introduction of clinical practice guidelines, initially welcomed as the solution for improving the quality of care, left space to a rising debate on the problems and pitfalls of guidelines production and implementation. In this contribute some of the main criticisms (the quality of the guidelines, their real implementation in practice, the misconceptions that they should be rigidly implemented, that should limit the variability of practices…) are addressed and discussed.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Giulio
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards