National plan for clinical guidelines would elevate quality of care, experts say.

The article offers information on the wide variations in the quality of clinical practice guidelines in Canada in 2011. According to Dr. Sam Shortt of the Canadian Medical Association, many clinicians heavily rely on industry funding with no central source to coordinate guideline developers. Dr. Ian Graham of Canadian Institutes of Health Research, guideline developers fail to take into account how their suggestions may fare in the context to treat patients having multiple conditions.