Throughout this semester and previously in your curriculum we have shoved down your throats the importance of following clinical guidelines in the practice of medicine or pharmacy. What we haven't emphasized so much is the fact that, even when clinical guidelines have been fully endorsed and become the "standard of care," physicians can be slow to implement the guidelines.
An article in today's JAMA shows this to be the case with Heart Failure Guidelines. Watch this very short video released by JAMA. If you are captivated by this idea, then you may wish to read the entire paper: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/302/15/1658
Also, here is an article by the Associated Press commenting on the published study :
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gR2huSp8_aCl-iSQtwd11mCrUxDwD9BF1DU03
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