Decomposing clinical practice guidelines panels' deliberation into decision theoretical constructs

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The development of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) suffers from the lack of an explicit and transparent framework for synthesising the key elements necessary to formulate practice recommendations. We matched deliberations of the American Society of Haematology (ASH) CPG panel for the management of pulmonary embolism (PE) with the corresponding decision-theoretical constructs to assess agreement of the panel …