ON THE whole, the continent of Europe is still moving to the right, espousing the privatisation of state assets, reform of welfare and pensions, low taxes, fiscal rigour, freer markets.
Seven guidelines had a low score on rigour of development.
The low figure on rigour of development was because the methods of development had not been recorded and because the field had no scientific tradition.
Especially the low score on rigour of development is concerning, because explicit descriptions of how the available evidence was identified and selected is essential for the development of valid and reliable evidence-based recommendations.
Chris Woodhead, a former chief education inspector, highlights primary schools' continuing failure to teach literacy and numeracy properly, secondary schools' lack of academic rigour, demoralisingly low expectations of poor students, plus inverted snobbery about "elite" education.None of that is going to change quickly.
No need had existed to document any more than they did for internal use, which accounted for the low score on the rigour of the guidelines' development.
There have been randomized clinical trials on treatment of acute Achilles tendon rupture but the methodological rigour is often low.
Maternity unit guidelines performed well for clarity and presentation but had low scores for stakeholder involvement, rigour of development and applicability.
Al-Fadhli et al. (27) also reported the major features on presentation, irrespective of the course of the disease, as fever, sweating, headache, rigours, arthralgia, myalgia and low back pain.
One question is whether the countries whose policies they admired during the good times are more resilient in hard times.Denmark's model of kindly rigour is still delivering extremely low unemployment, despite negative growth.
