SURGERY / GI + COLORECTAL · SOURCE MAP
1. Name the problem family first. Distinguish acute care, benign disease, inflammatory disease and cancer pathways before reaching for a management fact.
2. Evidence has a home. Colorectal guidance is disease-specific and changes with evidence; identify the guideline’s condition, publication date and intended setting.
3. Multidisciplinary context matters. Imaging, pathology, anaesthesia, oncology and surgery often answer different parts of one question.
What makes a surgical source transferable?
Its condition, population, setting and date match the question being asked.
What prevents a single fact from becoming unsafe?
Checking the full clinical context and the current local pathway.
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