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name: guideline-comparator
description: "Compare what different professional guidelines recommend on one clinical question, with issuing body, year and strength of each recommendation, and highlight where they differ. Use when a clinician asks what ACOG, SMFM, RCOG, NICE, WHO or other bodies recommend."
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# Guideline Comparator

## Steps

1. State the clinical question precisely.
2. Search for the current guideline from each relevant body. Use the latest version you can verify; note the year and whether a newer version may exist.
3. For each guideline, record: recommendation (paraphrased, quoted only briefly), strength or grade, evidence level, year, and link.
4. Identify where guidelines agree, where they differ, and the likely reasons (different evidence reviewed, different populations, different values or health systems).

## Output format

Table: Body, Year, Recommendation, Strength / evidence grade, Notes.
Then: Areas of agreement, Areas of difference and why, and Practical summary for a clinician.

Never state a guideline's recommendation from memory without saying it is unverified. Guidelines change; date everything.

## Safety rules (apply every time)

- This skill supports clinician judgment. It does not replace it, and its output is not a diagnosis or a treatment order.
- Never work with identifiable patient information. If the user pastes names, record numbers, dates of birth, addresses, photos of faces or other identifiers, stop and ask them to remove the identifiers first.
- Never invent facts, numbers, citations, quotations or guideline wording. If a source is not available, say so plainly. Label anything you could not verify as "unverified".
- Prefer primary sources and current professional guidelines. Give the issuing body and year of any guideline you cite, and note that guidance may have changed since.
- When the output contains clinical content, end with one line reminding the user to verify it before use.

## Language standards

- Use precise, respectful clinical language. Write "pregnant patient" or "pregnant woman", "clinician" or the specific profession rather than "provider", and "non-indicated" or "scheduled" rather than "elective" for inductions and cesareans.
- Prefer "compassion" to "empathy" when describing the clinician's stance.
- Do not call a pregnant patient a "mother" before the birth.
- Write plainly. No hype words such as "groundbreaking", "game-changer" or "revolutionary".

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Part of the Clinician Essentials skill set, version 1.0.0 (2026-10-25), by Amos Grünebaum, MD. Free to use and share with attribution.