They should also facilitate the development of panels of indicators for disease control as part of decision-support systems for the monitoring of prominent complex diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, by patients and their physicians [ 31].
It is far more probable that a biomarker dependent diagnosis will require a panel of disease indicators whereby different indicators will have greater or lesser diagnostic utility depending upon individual patients or stages of disease evolution.
The study triangulates answers through a review of sustainability literature, a scan of existing indicators, and consultation with panels of indicator experts.
Second, urgently complete the process of building and monitoring a panel of selected indicators on effective development co-operation.
To address this issue we evaluated a panel of distinct indicators of systemic OxS, along with marker of bone formation (bone-specific alkaline phosphatase, BAP) and resorption (C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen, CTX-1) in a large population sample, including healthy, osteopenic and osteoporotic, postmenopausal women.
Panels of robust indicators of recurrence risk (both clinico-pathological and molecular-biological) could potentially be utilised as routine, to direct individual patient treatment.
19 It consists of a literature review, assessment of the strength of the supporting evidence base, an initial face and content validity assessment by an expert panel, followed by an independent assessment of indicators by an expert clinical panel across various disciplines, using an online survey.
The panel felt strongly that use of indicators, guidelines or criteria providing clinical decision support should never replace critical thinking in patient care.
17 Our study used a modified RAND appropriateness method, with one round of independent expert panel review, and subsequent inclusion of indicators which met a priori defined criteria but no face-to-face meeting of experts.
