Chapter  6:  Current Validity of AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines: Technical Review: Number 6

Prepared for:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2101 East Jefferson Street

Rockville, MD 20852

http://www.ahrq.gov/

Contract No. 290-97-0001, Task Order No. 5

Prepared by:

Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center based at RAND, Santa Monica, CA

• Paul Shekelle, M.D., Ph.D.

• Center Director / Project Director

• Sally Morton, Ph.D.

• Center Co-Director

• Eduardo Ortiz, M.D., M.P.H.

• Martin Eccles, M.D.

• Jeremy Grimshaw, M.D.

• Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H.

• Investigators

AHRQ Publication No. 02-0035

September 2002

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Suggested Citation:

Ortiz O, Eccles, M, Grimshaw J, et al. Current validity of clinical practice guidelines. Technical Review 6 (Contract No. 290-97-0001 to the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center at RAND). AHRQ Publication No. 02-0035. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 2002.