Craig Melville pointed me to this paper - which is very helpful re inequalities and clinical guideline development (and should be available free online). I can't now find the original message to see if Craig copied this to the list of just to me! Anyway, its a nice (!) paper. It'd be interesting to also look at the question of inequality in relation to the type of evidence included in guidelines across the world. My specific point in my blog is about the association between certain research methods/approaches and disabled groups... Clinical guidelines contribute to the health inequities experienced by individuals with intellectual disabilities Lindsay AM Mizen, Marjorie L Macfie, Linda Findlay, Sally-Ann Cooper, Craig A Melville Implementation Science 2012, 7:42 Richard -- Richard Hastings PhD CPsychol FBPsS FIASSIDD Professor of Psychology Twitter: @ProfRHastings Blog: http://profhastings.blogspot.co.uk/ Research Director, North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme School of Psychology Bangor University Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 2AS Wales, UK Tel: +44 1248 388214 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/psychology/research/staff_profile.php?person=richard_hastings -- Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig / Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilëwch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio â defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Bangor University. Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk