Treatment Guidelines: The Ongoing Pursuit of Excellence

Host: Jack Lewin, MD Guest: Elliott Antman, MD New treatment guidelines regularly make headlines in medicine, recommending advances in our approach to care. In recent years, we have accelerated the speed at which we can update our guidelines and welcomed more global input into the process. Will these trends continue? Where else can we improve our process for authoring treatment guidelines? Host Dr. Jack Lewin explores these questions and more with Dr. Elliott Antman, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and past chairman of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association’s Task Force on Practice Guidelines.