Does anyone know if the IDSA guidelines are written by the same "doctors" that wrote the article that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year?
I have the NEJM article in hard copy, but can't find the IDSA guidelines with the authors names?
Thank you Wizard
Posted by hokie (Member # 14720) on :
There are multiple authors. There is definitely overlap between authors of both documents but I am not certain exactly how many authors on each of the documents are the same.
That was a big point of contention. After Blumenthal filed the suit, the NEJM article was written blasting him for doing so... it was written by many of the same people who Blumenthal was essentially filing suit against.
Posted by TerryK (Member # 8552) on :
Here they are. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/508667 Gary P. Wormser,1 Raymond J. Dattwyler,2 Eugene D. Shapiro,5,6 John J. Halperin,3,4 Allen C. Steere,9 Mark S. Klempner,10 Peter J. Krause,8 Johan S. Bakken,11 Franc Strle,13 Gerold Stanek,14 Linda Bockenstedt,7 Durland Fish,6 J. Stephen Dumler,12 and Robert B. Nadelman1
Divisions of 1Infectious Diseases and 2Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, and 3New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; 4Atlantic Neuroscience Institute, Summit, New Jersey; Departments of 5Pediatrics and 6Epidemiology and Public Health and 7Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, and 8Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford; 9Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and 10Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; 11Section of Infectious Diseases, St. Luke's Hospital, Duluth, Minnesota; 12Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland; 13Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and 14Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Posted by adamm (Member # 11910) on :
14 of the most destructive individuals ever to have lived
Posted by WIZARD (Member # 4597) on :
Thank you, hokie, TerryK and Adamm.
The main authors are some of the IDSA and the others are hidden in an appendix.
Same old stuff from the same old tired crew.
But, the NEJM is world renowned, so that makes it right!
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