Table 1 Characteristics of guidelines and developers
Total guidelines (n = 1360) | 1994–1999 guidelines (n = 730) | 2000–2005 guidelines (n = 630) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | n | % | n | % | |
Type of organization | ||||||
National professional (e.g. Canadian Medical Association) | 450 | 33.1 | 254 | 34.8 | 196 | 31.1 |
Para-government (e.g. Cancer Care Ontario) | 313 | 23.0 | 177 | 24.2 | 136 | 21.6 |
Licensing (e.g. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba) | 180 | 13.2 | 116 | 15.9 | 64 | 10.2 |
Government (e.g. Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Exam) | 243 | 17.9 | 113 | 15.5 | 130 | 20.6 |
Provincial medical (e.g. Alberta Medical Association) | 62 | 4.6 | 29 | 4.0 | 33 | 5.2 |
National health association (e.g. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada) | 88 | 6.5 | 24 | 3.3 | 64 | 10.2 |
Provincial health association (e.g. Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories | 24 | 1.8 | 17 | 2.3 | 7 | 1.1 |
Language | ||||||
English only | 1032 | 75.9 | 424 | 58.1 | 608 | 96.5 |
French only | 24 | 1.8 | 24 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 |
Bilingual | 304 | 22.4 | 282 | 38.6 | 22 | 3.5 |
Date of publication | ||||||
1994 | 183 | 13.5 | ||||
1995 | 109 | 8.0 | ||||
1996 | 122 | 9.0 | ||||
1997 | 114 | 8.4 | ||||
1998 | 129 | 9.5 | ||||
1999 | 73 | 5.4 | ||||
2000 | 113 | 8.3 | ||||
2001 | 130 | 9.6 | ||||
2002 | 124 | 9.1 | ||||
2003 | 123 | 9.0 | ||||
2004 | 90 | 6.6 | ||||
2005 | 50 | 3.7 | ||||