There is increasing professional and policy interest in the role of clinical guidelines for promoting effective and … efficient health care. The NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme identified an urgent need, when such guidelines are … information on cost-effectiveness. This paper describes the development of recent evidence-based guidelines, for use in primary …

\' responses to them. These issues have relevance to wider debates about the role of guidelines and regulation for ethical practice …. We found that study participants were generally less in favour of guidelines that regulate the way research is conducted … and more in favour of guidelines that help researchers to strike balances between the conflicting pressures that …