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Transparent criteria expose potential bias in clinical guidelines

William R. Phillips
Canadian Family Physician October 2021, 67 (10) 721; DOI: https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.6710721_2
William R. Phillips
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With the explicit criteria provided by the College of Family Physicians of Canada in the July issue,1 family medicine continues to lead the way in improving the quality, relevance, and usefulness of clinical practice guidelines for practitioners and their patients.2 The emphasis on transparency and full disclosure of funding sources will help expose potential bias. The American Academy of Family Physicians pioneered these principles in 1994 by publishing the first international call for explicit declaration of conflicts of interest in the development of clinical practice guidelines.3

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    Endorsement of clinical practice guidelines. Criteria from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Can Fam Physician 2021;67:499-502 (Eng), e169-73 (Fr).
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    1. Phillips WR.
    General practice leads in transparency of clinical guidelines [eLetter]. BJGP 2020 Oct 30. Available from: https://bjgp.org/content/70/700/530/tab-e-letters. Accessed 2021 Sep 16.
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    1. Phillips WR.
    Clinical policies: making conflicts of interest explicit. JAMA 1994;272(19):1479.
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