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    Professional Societies Should Abstain From Authorship of Guidelines and Disease Definition Statements

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    Post by graham64 Fri Oct 19 2018, 23:03

    Great article a usual by John Ioannidis

    Guidelines and other statements from professional societies have become increasingly influential. These documents shape how disease should be prevented and treated and what should come within the remit of medical care. Changes in definition of illness can easily increase overnight by millions the number of people who deserve specialist care. This has been seen repeatedly in conditions as diverse as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, composite cardiovascular risk, depression, rheumatoid arthritis, or gastroesophageal reflux.1  Similarly, changes in prevention or treatment options may escalate overnight the required cost of care
    by billions of dollars.2  Should the specialists of the respective field be the developers for such influential articles?

    Full: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004889
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    Post by chris c Fri Oct 19 2018, 23:21

    Brilliant! He and Peter Goetzsche need to start Cochrane 2.0
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    Post by graham64 Mon Oct 22 2018, 22:26

    chris c wrote:Brilliant! He and Peter Goetzsche need to start Cochrane 2.0

    That would be a dream team both not influenced by big pharma propaganda  Cool

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