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G-I-N must adopt the WHISKY statement

Service d’évaluation médicale, CHU, Amiens, France

Correspondence to:
Dr A Braillon
Service d’évaluation médicale, CHU, Amiens, France; braillon.alain@chu-amiens.fr

Keywords: clinical practice guidelines; obsolence

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Clinical practice guidelines are the cornerstone of physicians’ revalidation which is now mandatory in France (since 1 July 2005). We have therefore studied whether or not guidelines published by the national body in charge of this policy are current.

The website of the national agency contains 433 documents on clinical practice, quality assessment, tutorials, etc.¹ The mean (SD) age of the documents was 64.8 (42.2) months. Only 11 documents were updated versions. We printed out 37 guidelines issued between January 2002 and May 2005. The date of issue was missing for one, while only 28% indicated when the bibliographic search ended (year without month and day). The year of issue was 1 year after the year of the bibliographic search for 38%, and 2 years or more for 24%. Updating was planned for four of the guidelines (two without a date and two at 5 years but without justification). However, . . . [Full text of this article]