@article{724117,
      recid = {724117},
      author = {Reach, Gérard, and Ratti, Claudia,},
      title = {Clinical inertia a critique of medical reason /  [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 142 pages) :},
      abstract = {Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed  within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal  of putting medical research findings into practice.  However, physicians do not always follow them, even when  they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to  treat. This phenomenon, known as clinical inertia,  represents a significant obstacle to the efficiency of care  and a major public health problem, the extent of which is  demonstrated in this book. An analysis of its causes shows  that it stems from a discrepancy between the objective,  essentially statistical nature of.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/724117},
}