Development and application of health outcome descriptors facilitated decision-making in the production of practice guidelines

OBJECTIVE: Stakeholders involved in developing recommendations need to have a common understanding of health outcomes and the perspective of affected individuals. In this paper we report on the development and application of health outcome descriptors (HODs) to inform decision-making by panels developing guideline recommendations. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Ten American Society of Hematology guideline panels addressing the management of venous …