As part of the guideline development process that led to the 2007 guideline, task force members participated in a workshop on the critical appraisal of medical literature.
VD, MW, MH, HM, are expert members of the guideline task force group for breast ultrasound who reviewed the original work and made substantial contributions to interpretation.
Guideline task forces, consisting of HCT specialists, other pediatric oncologists, radiation oncologists, organ-specific subspecialists, nurses, social workers, other health care professionals, and patient advocates systematically reviewed the literature with regards to late effects after childhood cancer and HCT since 2002, with the most recent review completed in 2013.
In order to formulate its guidelines, the task force used new data from mammography studies in England and Sweden and also commissioned six groups to make statistical models to analyze the aggregate data.
Implementing the guidelines, the task force stressed, will go a long way toward resolving the problems faced by humanitarian aid agencies in the past.
New guidelines from the task force, whose recommendations tend to be followed by most insurance companies, are due on July 16.
So delicate was the drafting of the guidelines that the task force members never shared their private views on whether assisted suicide should become legal.
The new guidelines by the task force are expected to affect the reimbursement of HIV testing, removing one of the barriers to the tests, Schmid's group said in a statement.
As part of the guideline development process that led to the 2007 guideline [ 22], task force members participated in a workshop on the critical appraisal of medical literature.
