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'Advice, not orders’? The evolving legal status of clinical guidelines
- Correspondence to Dr David Metcalfe, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK; david.metcalfe{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk
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'Advice, not orders’? The evolving legal status of clinical guidelines
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- Received June 12, 2020
- Revised July 23, 2020
- Accepted July 27, 2020
- First published September 2, 2020.
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January 07, 2022
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