This pretty much explains why I think 'Get With the Guidelines' from the The
American Heart Association and American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) and Stroke certification designations from the Joint Commission are worthless and harming research into solutions to actual
problems in stroke.
http://cardiobrief.org/2016/01/21/why-guidelines-are-bad-for-science/
These two paragraphs are instructive;
But there’s another sort of unintended consequence that is less
obvious and rarely discussed, though it may well be equally harmful. By
their very nature guidelines present the
illusion of successful science, the
appearance that clarity and understanding has been achieved by the experts. When this happens, science is the victim.
Mission Not Accomplished
The danger of guidelines is that we’ve declared
premature victory.
We’ve removed the incentives to perform new research. Any casual
observer, looking at the hundreds of footnotes in a guideline, would be
perfectly justified in asking why we should throw away more resources
exploring a topic that is already so thoroughly well understood.
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