Many of today's public policies aimed directly or indirectly at regulating the behaviors of individuals and organizations provide for the implementation of a certain type of instrument which can be qualified as a label. They share some features with what the literature tends to identify as...

Les personnes âgées, du fait de l'évolution démographique des sociétés développées, représentent une part de plus en plus significative des populations. En valeur absolue aussi, le nombre de personnes âgées augmente et augmentera . Tout ce qui entoure le sujet âgé va donc prendre...

Both critics and supporters of evidence-based medicine view clinical practice guidelines as an important component of this self-defined "new paradigm" whose goal is to rationalize medicine by grounding clinical decision-making in a careful assessment of the medical literature. We present an...