"If you followed every single guideline put out by every single agency, you would be stuck in your house," said Michael Zichelli, director of planning and development for Glen Ridge.
But he leaves the role having invested it with the qualities he brought – the plainest of which is transparency – and even an individual or body that disagreed with every single guideline would concede the (hopefully lasting) value of his tenure.
As it happened, this single guideline was too much even for Gould, who couldn't resist repeating Darwin's observation that in "The Origin of Species" "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history".
Some countries have produced a single guideline for all primary headaches which includes migraine (UK, Scotland, Croatia, Switzerland, Romania), whereas in Denmark the guideline covers both migraine and tension-type headache, and in Italy it covers migraine and cluster headache.
A single guideline was used by all care providers.
Of these, 25 recommendations were consistent, nine were inconsistent, and one was not rateable (derived from a single guideline).
In Queensland and Australia there is not a single guideline for caesarean section, but rather, a collection of guidelines for specific populations or indications [ 26- 29].
A total of 35 recommendations were systematically compared: 25/35 were consistent, 9/35 inconsistent, and 1/35 un-rateable (derived from a single guideline).
For cost-effectiveness: The need for cost/effectiveness information should be dictated by the specific question, of which several may be addressed in a single guideline.
The remainder of the dimensions focus on the individual recommendation as the unit of implementability, since a single guideline may contain recommendations that vary widely in their implementability.
