David Cundiff
On March 23, the Institute of Medicine issued a report entitled, “Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs).” The report noted that the National Guideline Clearinghouse accepted722 new guidelines to its database in 2008, bringing the total to nearly 2,700. Almost 1,000 CPGs have been updated because they didn’t quite get it right the first time. A staggering 1,978 CPGs were withdrawn from the database, presumably because they were just too wrong to be updated.
