Wikiguidelines

WikiGuidelines is a new, international collaborative effort to transform how clinical guidelines are constructed. We seek to incorporate the humility of uncertainty into guidelines, and to only make recommendations when reproducible, high quality, prospective studies support them. This evidence standard ensures that WikiGuideline authors do not establish standards of care based on authors’ opinions, which may be found subsequently to be wrong when subjected to the requirements for carefully controlled studies, and which may be impractical, infeasible, or undesirable to implement outside the highly resourced, quaternary care academic medical centers that traditionally dominate as sources of guideline authors.