The Pediatric Critical Care Transfusion and Anemia Expertise Initiative Consensus Conference Methodology.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This article describes the methodology used for Pediatric Critical Care Transfusion and Anemia Expertise Initiative Consensus Conference.

Design

Consensus conference of international experts in pediatric critical care and transfusion medicine, following standards set by the Institute of Medicine, using the Research and Development/UCLA Appropriateness Method, modeled after the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference. Topics related to RBC transfusion in children with or at risk for critical illness were divided into nine subgroups with a systematic review of the literature.

Methods

The panel of 38 content and four methodology experts met three times over the course of 2 years and collaborated to develop evidence-based and, when evidence was lacking

SUBMITTER: Bembea MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126354 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature