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Recommendations for Strengthening Consensus Development for Assessing Health Technologies
Pages 147-154

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... The writing group, which included ten persons from five countries, drafted the recommendations based on the deliberations of the workshop. Members of the writing group included Gerard Breart, Clifford Goodman, Itzhak Jacoby, Egon lonsson, Arnold Kaluzny, Pedro Koch, Jacqueline Kosecoff, Tore Schersten9 Jackie Spiby, and Caroline Weill.
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... RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Consensus development programs should be sponsored by organizations that have the ability to implement or effectively disseminate consensus findings.
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... X Consensus development programs should seek the best available scientific evidence concerning the safety, efficacy, effectiveness, and other pertinent aspects of the technologies to be assessed.
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... Sources may include reports of laboratory or bench studies, randomized clinical trials, epidemiologic or other observational studies, patient record audits, patient surveys, qualitative literature reviews, and individual expert opinion. Published literature as well as relevant unpublished surveys, trials, and data should be included.
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... a description of the reasoning used by the pane} and the evidential basis for the consensus findings; statements should include summary descriptions of the conference source documents (i.e., at least a bibliography, preferably accompanied with annotations concerning topic, methodology, and findings of cited studies)
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... 15. Consensus development programs should provide for monitoring new developments that may overturn or significantly alter the available evidence pertaining to a technology that has been assessed in previous consensus development conferences, so that the program may call for a reassessment as appropriate.
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... e. Do consensus findings reflect increased understanding and convergence of the opinions of panelists or agreement only on the "least common denominator" (i.e., least controversial and most commonly accepted issues)
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