Collecting data on why practitioners do not want to participate in the guideline process, even in circumstances where the topic may be relevant to a component of their clinical practice, could help guideline developers tailor the process in the future to encourage the participation of more practitioners.
By identifying the practice variations, the guideline can address these variations so that the guideline will be applicable to more practitioners, not just a subgroup of practitioners performing what is assumed to be the most common practice.
A lot like Black Kids and MGMT, in fact, and those other, more established practitioners of "wonder-rock": Arcade Fire, Polyphonic Spree, Midlake, Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips.
He retreated from the conflict, but history has proved that he was greatly ahead of his time, as more recent practitioners of the now established political school of spin doctoring, notably Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, might readily grant.
My point is that the battle of ideas matters even when those in power pour scorn upon it, or claim themselves to be no more than practitioners of "common sense".
JUST over two centuries ago, Thomas Malthus, one of the more pessimistic practitioners of the dismal science, predicted that (exponential) population growth, if unchecked, would overwhelm food supplies (which would grow only arithmetically)—leading to widespread starvation and mayhem.
But there are solider adversaries among the more radical practitioners of "science and technology studies" (STS sociologists and historians of science who treat it as a social activity like any other with no privileged claims to truth.
Though the more ardent practitioners of Falun Gong say they will keep their faith and not be cowed by the ban, the government's crackdown appears in these early days to be succeeding.
Roni Horn's Library of Water in Stykkisholmur (population 1,100) on the north-west coast of Iceland, on the other hand, is modest, unassertive and intended to serve the community rather than coerce it into an appreciation (or even a viewing) of the work of one of the more recondite practitioners of conceptual art.
More modern practitioners of the art have taken it to an extreme: John Crace, in his Digested Read column in the Guardian, offers four-hundred-word versions of recent best-sellers, along with even further squashed blurbs (for the new James Bond: "The name is Bland. James Bland"), while Book-A-Minute Classics sums up the collected works of Virginia Woolf as: Life is beautiful and tragic.
