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Changing clinical behaviour by making guidelines specific

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The uptake of guidelines could be improved simply by changing their wording, suggest clinical psychologists. The more precisely behaviours are specified, they argue, the more likely they are to be carried out. Their advice is to use language that is behaviourally precise and to use …

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