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Suggested Citation:"FINAL COMMENT." Institute of Medicine. 1990. Clinical Practice Guidelines: Directions for a New Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1626.
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SUMMARY 18 other steps necessary to implement the recommendations. An active program of disseminating the committee's findings and recommendations is planned. The committee report should be released in the fall of 1991. FINAL COMMENT Fulfilling the mission and potential of the Forum will require heroic effort from a small staff, serious commitment from participants in the expert panels, and honest and practical support from the many involved and interested parties. Serious conceptual and practical issues remain to be confronted and resolved on a tight timetable with a modest budget. The undertaking will be strengthened if expectations are neither naively optimistic nor cynically pessimistic. This report suggests some of the ways in which the agency—with the help of many others and a stance of constructive realism—can move to meet its mandate.

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