Blog post about the dangers of following guidelines

This is an interesting link to the downsides of following "evidence-based" guidelines

a few thoughts:
- guidelines are based on consensus, not evidence
- as this case shows, people who are on these guideline panels often have financial conflict of interest
- always be wary, as a consumer, when you hear the word "quality".  Often the word quality is used when they really mean cost containment
- to that end, guidelines often use research, as the cliche goes, the same way a blind man uses a light pole- for support of a previous supposition (usually not paying for something), rather than for enlightenment