But the guidelines were ambiguous and short-sighted.
Where accounting guidelines are ambiguous, opportunities abound for masking bad news.
Employers also often contend that the labor guidelines are ambiguous and largely obsolete for today's rapidly changing workforce.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a known complication after spine surgery, but prophylaxis guidelines are ambiguous for patients undergoing elective spine surgery.
In 2015, UC San Diego researchers described stem cell treatment as "medicine's Wild West". As Hermes Taylor-Weiner and Joshua Graff Zivin observed, "Because FDA guidelines are ambiguous, stem-cell clinics have in effect been operating without regulation". The proliferation of the clinics has forced the FDA to take a closer look.
With respect to testing indications, we included all patients with fever because national malaria guidelines are ambiguous and do not specify criteria defining other obvious causes of fever.
Recommendations on the use of IMT as an adjunct to general exercise training in these patients in international guidelines are ambiguous.
Data from well-designed psychological measurement scales, however, can have properties that appear more interval than ordinal in quality, making classification based on Stevens' guidelines more ambiguous (Steinberg, 2011).
The guidelines are ambiguous about how palliative care should be integrated within stroke services, and no distinction between those patients who die in the acute stage and those who die in later stages of the disease pathway is made.
However, the guidelines are ambiguous, stating that 'doctors cannot be required to give treatment contrary to their clinical judgment but should, whenever possible, respect patients' wishes to receive treatment which carries only a very small chance of success or benefit' (British Medical Association et al, 2001).
