Why Guidelines Are Bad For Science

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.