Comparing guidelines for the management of anogenital warts

The national guidelines is the work of a single author written to a brief which imposed a "house" style and concision to conform with the 22 other national guidelines on sexually transmitted infections jointly commissioned by the UK professional bodies, the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases, and the Association of Genitourinary Medicine. Both use the same guidelines to grading of evidence supporting treatment recommendations developed by the agency of Health Care Policy and Research. 2 Of the treatments covered in both texts it is reassuring that identical conclusions as to the level of evidence available was reached.