The Need for Evidence to Guide Clinical Practice

John A Spertus^{1

2}, Sidney C Smith Jr^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri, Kansas City (J.S.).
² Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (S.C.S.).

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John A Spertus et al. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018 Oct.

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. 2018 Oct;11(10):e005177.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005177.

John A Spertus^{1

2}, Sidney C Smith Jr^{1

2}

¹ Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri, Kansas City (J.S.).
² Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (S.C.S.).

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Keywords: United States; evidence-based medicine; guideline; humans; literature.

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Guidelines Do Not Entangle Practitioners With Unavoidable Conflicts as Authors, and When There Is No Evidence, Just Say So.
Ioannidis JPA. Ioannidis JPA. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018 Oct;11(10):e005205. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005205. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018. PMID: 30354581 No abstract available.

Professional Societies Should Abstain From Authorship of Guidelines and Disease Definition Statements.
Ioannidis JPA. Ioannidis JPA. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018 Oct;11(10):e004889. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004889. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018. PMID: 30354582 No abstract available.