Table 2.

Workshop subgroups’ assigned considerations

Subgroup A—content of guidelines:

Mono-disciplinary guidelines are more detailed than multidisciplinary guidelines

Mono-disciplinary guidelines are more innovative than multidisciplinary guidelines

Multidisciplinary guidelines are a tower of Babel

Multidisciplinary guidelines are more likely to deviate from ‘the norm’ or from ‘routine care’ of separate health care professions

Mono-disciplinary guidelines reflect the interests of the discipline concerned even if they are evidence-based

Subgroup B—process of guidelines development:

Multidisciplinary peer-review of mono-disciplinary guidelines is the best option

Multidisciplinary guidelines should be the ‘gold standard’ from which mono-disciplinary guidelines may derive

Mono-disciplinary guidelines should always precede multidisciplinary guidelines

Subgroup C—implementation of guidelines:

Multidisciplinary guidelines are more widely supported

Multidisciplinary guidelines are the only way to stop the overload of guidelines

Multidisciplinary guidelines stand a greater chance of unifying practice

The implementation of multidisciplinary guidelines required additional contextual explanation

The multi-faceted interventions required to get multidisciplinary guidelines implemented are too onerous