CCS guidelines and position statements are important, but do they make the GRADE?

摘要

A little more than a year ago, in one of my first President's Pages, I spoke to you about Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) guidelines and discussed the closed-loop model for guideline development. Guidelines and position statements are one of the most important components of our commitment to member engagement and knowledge translation - the most important component is the annual Canadian Cardiovascular Congress. I am very proud of the leader-ship that the CCS has demonstrated so far in this critical area, but I know that there is an opportunity for us to continue improving our development processes to ensure that our recommendations and tools are built based on the highest quality of data to stand the test of time.