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The Barriers to Uniform Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Thyroid Cancer

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Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) provide recommendations about the current best practice likely to offer the best outcome based upon the most reliable scientific evidence available at the time, for relevant professionals, patients, and policy makers of healthcare organizations. National CPGs thus aim to standardize high quality care amongst all professionals, specialist units and hospitals of the country by reducing the variation and heterogeneity in practice.

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F Pacini (Italy), J Brierley (Canada), C S Bal (India), B Haugen (USA).

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  1. Chief Investigator UK National “IoN” and HiLo Trials, Past Clinical Oncologist and Regional Thyroid MDT, Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Ujjal K. Mallick

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Mallick, U.K., Pitoia, F. (2018). The Barriers to Uniform Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Thyroid Cancer. In: Mallick, U.K., Harmer, C. (eds) Practical Management of Thyroid Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91725-2_26

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