This was a project long overdue.
1) Single site access to gold standard guidelines is surprisingly still not addressed
The purpose of Guidelines is very pure and simple: frequently or semi-frequently the world leading associations issue recommended guidelines that clinicians utilize on a daily basis to treat medically compromised patients.
The variety and scope of these publications may be wide, however, there are a number of well defined sources that are pre-selected as the authority or gold standard of care. Therefore, curation of these Guidelines is not as labor intensive or time consuming to warrant an establishment for their organization; and thus, remain neglected.
2) Clinicians should conveniently be able to access Guidelines
Of anyone with their plate already full, the clinician will foreseeably be too consumed in other activities to maintain a dedicated, and convenient, point of entry towards their access to the most current, and relevant, standards.
The clinician may not even have convenient access to a list of gold standard resources they once may have had. Once a clinician enters private practice, they risk becoming isolated and sandboxed out of such resources that may often go unnoticed or unappreciated.
As a result, the clinician may compromise their ability to receive a thorough, and up to date, criteria or list of standards they may study. Subsequently, patients are the population who bear the results of this risk.
3) When clinicians have access to resources, patients benefit
The sole purpose of a clinical practice, and hence Guidelines, is to benefit the patient.
There should not be an issue that exists today caused by a barrier of access to information that is readily available over the wire. Therefore, instruments such as Guidelines exist to facilitate the transfer of information to maintain a peer reviewed, updated, thorough, and accessible list of resources available to clinicians via a multitude of avenues.
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