TITLE

Medicine by the book

AUTHOR(S)

Findlay, Steven

PUB. DATE

July 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;7/6/92, Vol. 113 Issue 1, p68

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the first three of 12 guidelines planned this year by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, part of the United States Public Health Service. The results will be widely disseminated; What the guidelines are meant to accomplish; Many physician groups hope that guidelines will help bring down malpractice-insurance premiums; Works in progress; More. INSET: Guidelines for the asking (information on obtaining care)..

ACCESSION #

9207061367

 

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