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Clinical guidelines in old age psychiatry
  1. James Warner

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.73.1.100

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      By A Burns, T Dening, and B Lawlor (Pp 208, £29.95). Published by Martin Dunitz, London, 2002. ISBN 1-84184-0297

      Do we really need a book on clinical guidelines for old age psychiatry? Read this book and I think you will agree with me the answer is yes! I suspect many clinicians, like myself, have an innate dislike of guidelines. They are perceived as constraining clinical freedom, are generally (inevitably) reductionist in their approach, and may be used as a stick with which …

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