Biomedical Organizations: A Worldwide Guide to Position Documents

According to the author, there are more than 4,000 biomedical organizations worldwide representing the entire spectrum of medicine and medical practice. Many of these organizations develop documents that reflect the collective position or opinion of their members on important issues of the day. These documents, most often referred to as position statements, are a unique resource not commonly consulted in the research process. A position document establishes the view of an organization based on its knowledge on the subject at that specific time. In 1996 the author realised that there was no single source of information about biomedical organization position...