Contributors to primary care guidelines

↵* Percentages do not add to 100 owing to rounding.

↵† Four guidelines filed each of their subsections (6 to 29 subsections for each) as separate guidelines. In a secondary analysis, these subsections were eliminated.

↵‡ Other category includes gastroenterology (n = 3), geriatrics (n = 2), hematology (n = 2), nephrology (n = 1), rheumatology and sports medicine (n = 1), and urology (n = 1).

↵§ Numbers of guideline sponsors represent the total number of sponsors. Some guidelines had up to 16 sponsors with multiple sponsors of the same type (eg, an individual guideline might have 2 different government-related sponsors, 5 sponsors from different societies or associations, and 5 different sponsors from the same industry).

↵|| Mean number of sponsors (range) for all guidelines was 2.3 (1–16) and for all guidelines excluding subsections was 2 (1–16).