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Best practices protocol - lcmelvin


Posted: Dec 04, 2009

Patient has COPD exacerbation and acute bronchitis.  Doc dictates, "The patient was started on the best practices protocol."  Any information?  Is this an internal set of procedures or possibly a standard of care for the specialty?

Best-practice protocols - in New England Journal

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