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21144966

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
25
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-14
pubmed:abstractText
Guidelines have rather quickly assumed a central role in health care delivery in the U.S. They have become the foundation on which performance measures are built and, therefore, a major player in assessing the quality of care provided by individuals and institutions, the ramifications of which involve reputation, reimbursement, and litigation. We are concerned, however, that in our enthusiasm for collectively endorsing these guidelines, we are marginalizing the importance of physician judgment and inadvertently risking the conversion of guidelines into "cookbooks." We believe that this viewpoint, while unequivocally acknowledging the fundamental importance of guidelines, simultaneously provides a critically important perspective on the potential for misuse of both guidelines and performance measures. Further, we hope that publication of this viewpoint will help temper enthusiasm for overzealous conversion of guidelines into performance measures, thereby restoring the vital role of physician judgment and insight into patient management.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1558-3597
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2077-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Heart failure guidelines, performance measures, and the practice of medicine: mind the gap.
pubmed:affiliation
DMC Cardiovascular Institute, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA. JGhali@dmc.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review