Arch Dis Child 2001;84:459-462 ( June )

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Changing physician behaviour

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	Introduction

Changing physician behaviour has become an important focus of medicine over the past two decades.^1-3 The rapid expansion of medical knowledge and concerns about quality of care, have led to the birth of both the practice guideline movement^4 5 and evidence based medicine.^6 7 More recently, medical informatics and patient participation in care have matured as distinct clinical and research entities.^8-11 Great Britain has recognised the importance of improving the quality of health care with the creation of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence and the Commission for Health Improvement.² Ultimately, each of these developments hopes to influence physician behaviour and affect how physicians make decisions on behalf of patients.

Rather than a traditional review of a medical topic, we have chosen to focus on a few selected issues that are critical if we are to understand how to change physician behaviour. This paper has four parts. Firstly, we briefly review issues . . . [Full text of this article]

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