Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?

Freely available journal article reviewing and summarising recent evidence, relevant to both developed and developing countries on whether evidence based clinical guidelines can change hospitals variable costs which are clinician dependent, and the degree of financial savings achieved at hospital level.

Do clinical guidelines reduce clinician dependent costs?
George Kosimbei , Kara Hanson  and Mike English
Health Research Policy and Systems 2011, 9:24doi:10.1186/1478-4505-9-24

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