Medical consensus, guidelines, and position papers: a policy for the ECFS

K De Boeck; C Castellani; J S Elborn; ECFS Board

doi:10.1016/j.jcf.2014.06.012

Medical consensus, guidelines, and position papers: a policy for the ECFS

J Cyst Fibros. 2014 Sep;13(5):495-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2014.06.012. Epub 2014 Jul 19.

Authors

K De Boeck¹, C Castellani², J S Elborn³; ECFS Board

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: christiane.deboeck@uzleuven.be.
² Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Verona, Italy.
³ Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queens University, Belfast and Adult CF Centre BHSCT, UK.

PMID: 25053447
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2014.06.012

Abstract

The terms consensus, guideline and position paper are sometimes employed as if they were interchangeable, but the purpose of such documents and the robustness of advice vary as the evidence base does not have the same depth in each. The Board of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society deemed it to be helpful to provide a short commentary on the definition of these terms, on their interconnections and on how ECFS considers them in documents endorsed by the society.

Keywords: Cystic Fibrosis; Guidelines; Medical consensus; Position Paper.

MeSH terms

Consensus*
Cystic Fibrosis*
Europe
Guidelines as Topic*
Humans
Societies, Medical*
Terminology as Topic