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Writing ESC Guidelines

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines aim to present the relevant evidence on a clinical issue to help physicians weigh the benefits and risks of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic approach.

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines are developed following ESC policies and procedures.

All information, and the content of ESC Guidelines under development, must be kept confidential until published. The full details of the rules on confidentiality are developed in the document below: