The CHEERS statement recommendations have been independently reviewed and subsequently revised by task force members.
Focusing on risk-reduction strategies, an interdisciplinary task force revised the facility's surgical site identification policy and improved the surgical scheduling form to highlight information for sided procedures.
The task force revising the manual wanted to align psychiatry with the rest of medicine, which has already begun to distinguish between levels of impairment, said its chairman, Dr. David J. Kupfer, a University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist.
"What I worry about most is that the revisions will medicalize normality and that millions of people will get psychiatric labels unnecessarily," said Dr. Allen Frances, who was chairman of the task force that revised the last edition.
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The task force also revised the pediatric department admissions form to include a standing written order for HIV testing as well as a section for documentation of test results.
In 2006, the American College of Critical Care Medicine assembled a 20-member task force to revise the 2002 guidelines for sedation and analgesia in critically ill adults.
The Army public health study recommended that Southern Command work with the joint task force to "revise pre-deployment training to be more mission-specific, better preparing troopers mentally and emotionally for what to expect by making the training".
In the late 1970s at the APA, Robert Spitzer, trained in both medicine and psychoanalysis, was appointed to the new task force to revise the DSM.
