Methodology for the American Society of Hematology VTE guidelines: current best practice, innovations, and experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Methods for the development of clinical guidelines have advanced dramatically over the past 2 decades to strive for trustworthiness, transparency, user-friendliness, and rigor. The American Society of Hematology (ASH) guidelines on venous thromboembolism (VTE) have followed these advances, together with application of methodological innovations.

Objective

In this article, we describe methods and methodological innovations as a model to inform future guideline enterprises by ASH and others to achieve guideline standards. Methodological innovations introduced in the development of the guidelines aim to address current challenges in guideline development.

Methods

We followed ASH policy for guideline development, which is based on the Guideline International Ne

SUBMITTER: Wiercioch W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7252554 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature