Impact of Professional Society Guideline Publications in Medicine Subspecialties From 2012 to 2022: Implications for Clinical Care and Health Policy.

ABSTRACT: Clinical guidelines have become an integral part of clinical care. We assessed professional society-based clinical guidelines from 2012 to 2022 to elucidate the trends in numbers of documents, recommendations, and classes of recommendations. Our results found that 40% of the guidelines do not follow all recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine for trustworthy documents. There has been a significant increase in documents in cardiology, gastroenterology, and hematology/oncology. In addition, of more than 20,000 recommendations, there was significant variability in recommendations made by different professional societies within a specialty. In documents from 11 of the 14 professional societies, more than 50% of the recommendations are supported with the lowest levels of evidence. In

SUBMITTER: Jhawar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10319849 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature