NGC Delists IDSA Lyme Disease Guidelines The IDSA's guidelines no longer meet IOM trustworthy standard

By Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA

T he National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), a federal database providing treatment information to health care professionals and insurance companies, recently removed the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Lyme disease treatment guidelines from its website. The NGC considers them out of compliance with their current standards.

This means that the only Lyme disease guidelines listed on the NGC are those of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) posted in 2014. This is quite good for the Lyme community…… Join or login below to continue reading.

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