title: Possible progress and unresolved conflicts resulting from guidelines on good epidemiologic practices.
abstract: In summary, producing guidelines also produces conflict. The purpose of this paper was to delineate some of the conflicts that result from, or are involved in, having a set of guidelines for good epidemiologic practices. The goal was to present briefly both sides of the conflicts without trying to resolve them. The hope is that others will cogently argue one side or the other of these conflicts and convince the community to resolve the conflict, or alternatively, perhaps that the current guideline is somewhere in the middle of the beliefs in the community and thus is correctly positioned.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267-0183.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Buncher
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Halperin
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D011786:Quality Control; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*