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HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: The Trump Administration is planning to eliminate a vast trove of medical guidelines that for nearly 20 years has been a critical resource for doctors, researchers and others in the medical community. Maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the database is known as the National Guideline Clearinghouse [NGC], and it's scheduled to "go dark," in the words of an official there, on July 16. "Guideline.gov was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world," King said, referring to the URL at which the database is hosted, which the agency says receives about 200,000 visitors per month. "It is a singular resource," Valerie King, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of Research at the Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University, added. [She] said the NGC is perhaps the most important repository of evidence-based research available.
Medical guidelines are best thought of as cheatsheets for the medical field, compiling the latest research in an easy-to use format. When doctors want to know when they should start insulin treatments, or how best to manage an HIV patient in unstable housing -- even something as mundane as when to start an older patient on a vitamin D supplement -- they look for the relevant guidelines. The documents are published by a myriad of professional and other organizations, and NGC has long been considered among the most comprehensive and reliable repositories in the world. AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet. Not even an archived version of the site will remain, according to an official at AHRQ.
Medical guidelines are best thought of as cheatsheets for the medical field, compiling the latest research in an easy-to use format. When doctors want to know when they should start insulin treatments, or how best to manage an HIV patient in unstable housing -- even something as mundane as when to start an older patient on a vitamin D supplement -- they look for the relevant guidelines. The documents are published by a myriad of professional and other organizations, and NGC has long been considered among the most comprehensive and reliable repositories in the world. AHRQ said it's looking for a partner that can carry on the work of NGC, but that effort hasn't panned out yet. Not even an archived version of the site will remain, according to an official at AHRQ.
You deserve to have your children die in front of you from a preventable condition you stupid, stupid republican trash faggot child. Blame socialism, great work you feckless cunt lol! You faggots are charades of your fathers' bullshit ideologies.
That's one of the thousands of things that governments have no business doing. It's just a drop in the ocean.
Hopefully, other things such as air traffic control will be privatized next. They are still using 1960's technology for Christ's sake.
Actually the article makes clear that this source is particularly good because it makes a serious effort to vet articles
Which is before the followup part which explains how in the past it has been politicized...
Again, it comes down to the simple point - if the source is "particularly good" who would not want to host that, it would be widely used. And yet, no takers...
There may be yet, they seemed hopeful. But why is this database not better hosted by some industry association further removed from the effects of political winds that have DEMONSTRABLY as the article states affected the content?
What I see on Slashdot is an awful lot of non-doctors (myself included) pontificating on this move. Is it really widely used? I don't know. All *I* (and the rest of you) have to go on is the demonstrated value which currently is zero as there are no takers to carry on this data.
Hell, why don't YOU offer to take it over if you truly think it's valuable? The agency claims it would cost "hundreds of thousands" to host this data further as just an archive, which every single Slashdot reader knows has to be absolutely bullshit. Where are the Slashdot readers offering to host this "valuable" content???????
Oh look, the value is further diminishing already....
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's going to take the next administration (if there is one) years to fix all the things that the trumpies have laid to waste, if they can be fixed at all.
Thank god!
I don't think America could have survived four more years of democratic "fixing".
Specifically, we collectively - as Americans - have allowed ourselves to become incredibly stupid and brain-washed to the point that we prioritize who kneels at a sports game over who will guarantee a civilized level of medical coverage for all citizens.
This is, of course, complete and utter horseshit. I've never met anyone who cares more about kneeling than healthcare; only a blowhard would claim that "Americans collectively" do.
What's happening here is that you, personally, have an issue with the current healthcare system and want to pretend that those who disagree with you don't care about it. The truth of the matter is that they do care, just as much as you do; they just happen to be more or less fine with the way things are, and want to keep it that way.