The challenges of guidelines: A look at the systematic review of clinical guidelines related to the care of individuals with cerebral palsy

This essay is an invited commentary on the report “Systematic review of clinical guidelines related to care of individuals with cerebral palsy as part of the World Health Organization efforts to develop a global Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation” in this journal (reference). As a blinded reviewer of the original and revised versions o f this interesting paper, I was stimulated to reflect on a number of ideas about ‘clinical guidelines’, and to take the opportunity to put on paper concerns I have long held, and that this paper identified.
Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Source Type: research