{"id":187950,"date":"2024-04-23T04:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/significant-global-variation-in-covid-19-guidelines-most-countries-recommend-at-least-one-treatment-that-doesnt-work"},"modified":"2024-04-23T04:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:27:43","slug":"significant-global-variation-in-covid-19-guidelines-most-countries-recommend-at-least-one-treatment-that-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/significant-global-variation-in-covid-19-guidelines-most-countries-recommend-at-least-one-treatment-that-doesnt-work","title":{"rendered":"Significant global variation in COVID-19 guidelines: Most countries recommend at least one treatment that doesn\u2019t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/significant-global-variation-in-covid-19-guidelines-most-countries-recommend-at-least-one-treatment-that-doesnt-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National clinical guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 vary significantly around the world, with under-resourced countries the most likely to diverge from gold standard (World Health Organization; WHO) treatment recommendations, finds a comparative analysis published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.<\/p>\n<p>And nearly every <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/national+guideline\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">national guideline<\/a> recommends at least one treatment proven not to work, the analysis shows.<\/p>\n<p>Significant variations in national COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment+recommendations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment recommendations<\/a> have been suspected since the advent of the pandemic, but these haven\u2019t been formally quantified or studied in depth, note the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National clinical guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 vary significantly around the world, with under-resourced countries the most likely to diverge from gold standard (World Health Organization; WHO) treatment recommendations, finds a comparative analysis published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. And nearly every national guideline recommends at least one treatment proven not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}