Guidelines should be guidelines: Time to leave the terms "consensus" and "position" for other purposes

Affiliations

¹ European Academy of Neurology, Vienna, Austria.
² Department of Neurology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
³ Neurology Department, Medical Faculty, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal.
⁶ Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁷ Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁸ Department of Neurology, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany.
⁹ Department of Neurology, Danish Dementia Research Center, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁰ European Federation of Neurological Associations, Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹ Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler University Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, affiliated partner of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, Salzburg, Austria.
¹² Neurology Unit, Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Fondazione IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza", San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
¹³ Neurology Unit, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
¹⁴ Neurology Clinic, University of Perugia-S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
¹⁵ IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Editorial

Guideline Production Group of the European Academy of Neurology et al. Eur J Neurol. 2021 Aug.

. 2021 Aug;28(8):2461-2466.

doi: 10.1111/ene.14933. Epub 2021 Jun 17.

¹ European Academy of Neurology, Vienna, Austria.
² Department of Neurology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, N. Macedonia.
³ Neurology Department, Medical Faculty, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal.
⁶ Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁷ Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁸ Department of Neurology, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany.
⁹ Department of Neurology, Danish Dementia Research Center, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁰ European Federation of Neurological Associations, Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹ Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler University Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, affiliated partner of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, Salzburg, Austria.
¹² Neurology Unit, Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Fondazione IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza", San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
¹³ Neurology Unit, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
¹⁴ Neurology Clinic, University of Perugia-S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
¹⁵ IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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