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Project Title: Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines

PIN: HCSX-H-08-09-A         

Major Unit:
Institute of Medicine

Sub Unit:
Board on Health Care Services

RSO:
Graham, Robin

Subject/Focus Area:



Meeting #1: Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines
November 9, 2009 - November 10, 2009
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001



If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Allison McFall
Email: amcfall@nas.edu
Phone:
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Agenda:

Monday, November 9
Keck Center - Room 206
500 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

8:00-9:45 am CLOSED SESSION

Begin OPEN SESSION
9:45 am Presentations from Sponsors

--Mary Barton, Project Officer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

--Invited Congressional Staff: Shawn Bishop, Senate Finance

Committee Q & A/Discussion

10:45 am Break

11:00 am The Quest for a Gold Standard: Guideline Development Process

--Rick Shiffman, Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

Committee Q & A/Discussion

12:00-12:30 pm CLOSED SESSION

Continue OPEN SESSION
12:30 pm Alternative Methods for Appraising the Evidence and Strength of Recommendations

--Holger Schuenemann, Chair, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University

Committee Q & A/Discussion

1:30 pm Implementing Guidelines and Evaluating Knowledge Translation

--Jeremy Grimshaw, Director, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (via teleconference)

Committee Q & A/Discussion

2:30 pm Break

2:45 pm Measurement and Evaluation of the Impact of Guidelines on Quality

--Greg Pawlson, Executive Vice President, NCQA

Committee Q & A/Discussion

3:45 -5:00 pm CLOSED SESSION

5:00 pm Adjourn

November 10th is CLOSED in its entirety.


Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Sheldon Greenfield
Earl Steinberg
Jerome Avorn
Robert Galvin
Raymond Gibbons
Joseph Lau
Monica Morrow
Cynthia Mulrow
Arnold Rosoff
John Santa
Richard Shiffman
Wally Smith
Walter Stewart
Ellen Stovall
Brian Strom
Marita Titler

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
A) Reviewed areas of potential bias or conflict of interest according to NRC procedures
B) Scope of work
C) Art of developing and applying guidelines
D) Relationship between guidelines and systematic reviews
E) Study timeline
F) Commissioned papers
G) Definition of clinical practice guidelines
H) Planning for January workshop

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
Clinical practice guideline developmental process diagram
"Grading Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations: A Perspective." Ansari, et. al. 2009. PLos Medicine

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: November 13, 2009



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