Medical Guidelines and Performance Measures: The Need to Keep Them Free of Industry Influence
To be unbiased and represent best practice, medical guidelines should be free of industry influence, carefully vetted among experts in the field and encompass treatments widely accepted based on difficult to refute evidence (Shaneyfelt, Mayo-Smith and Rothwang, 2006; Grilli, et al., 2000; Grissom, 2000). These requirements are even more important if individual guideline recommendations are to be grouped […]