TY - JOUR
T1 - ESCMID white paper: a guide on ESCMID guidance documents
AU - Sanguinetti, Maurizio
AU - Tacconelli, Evelina
AU - Scudeller, L.
AU - Rodríguez-Baño, J.
AU - Zinkernagel, A.
AU - Akova, M.
AU - Friedrich, A. W.
AU - Paul, M.
AU - Poljak, M.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) aims at further developing its role in international medical and scientific guidance in the field of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, where many types of guidance documents exist. The ESCMID Executive Committee (EC) and Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) editorial board wish to clarify the terminology and format to be used in ESCMID guidance documents submitted for publication in CMI, and to highlight the principles behind ESCMID guidance documents.
TYPES OF GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS:
There are five types of ESCMID guidance documents: White papers, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), Consensus Statements, State-of-the-science Statements, and Position papers. They differ in scope, methods of development, drafting group composition, and preferred publication format. Guidance documents can be proposed, developed and published by ESCMID Study Groups, Committees and individual members; often, other scientific societies are involved. The full disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (CoI) of all drafting group members is a requirement.
FINAL REMARKS:
Guidance documents constitute common cultural and scientific background to people in the same and related professions. Also, they are an important educational and training tool. Developing a guidance document is a scientific endeavour, where a sound and transparent development process is needed, requiring multidisciplinary and personal skills.
AB - The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) aims at further developing its role in international medical and scientific guidance in the field of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, where many types of guidance documents exist. The ESCMID Executive Committee (EC) and Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) editorial board wish to clarify the terminology and format to be used in ESCMID guidance documents submitted for publication in CMI, and to highlight the principles behind ESCMID guidance documents.
TYPES OF GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS:
There are five types of ESCMID guidance documents: White papers, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), Consensus Statements, State-of-the-science Statements, and Position papers. They differ in scope, methods of development, drafting group composition, and preferred publication format. Guidance documents can be proposed, developed and published by ESCMID Study Groups, Committees and individual members; often, other scientific societies are involved. The full disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (CoI) of all drafting group members is a requirement.
FINAL REMARKS:
Guidance documents constitute common cultural and scientific background to people in the same and related professions. Also, they are an important educational and training tool. Developing a guidance document is a scientific endeavour, where a sound and transparent development process is needed, requiring multidisciplinary and personal skills.
KW - Guidelines
KW - consensus methods
KW - consensus statements
KW - position paper
KW - state-of-the-art
KW - Guidelines
KW - consensus methods
KW - consensus statements
KW - position paper
KW - state-of-the-art
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/125262
U2 - 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.08.005
M3 - Article
SP - N/A-N/A
JO - Clinical Microbiology and Infection
JF - Clinical Microbiology and Infection
SN - 1198-743X
ER -