The New Standing Guideline Committee Policy of the American Stroke Association Stroke Council
Year: 2006
Type: editorial
Abstract: vidence-based practice guidelines encapsulate the most current knowledge about best practices, improve the delivery of care, and support the introduction of new knowledge into clinical practice.1 The development of strokerelated practice guidelines is a core mission of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.Over the last 3 years, the Stroke Council performed a systematic review of procedures for practice guideline development, a review initiated by Stroke Council Chair Robert Adams, MD and strongly supported by his successors, Marc Mayberg, MD and Larry B. Goldstein, MD.This review confirmed that Council guidelines possess the great preponderance of qualities deemed essential or desirable in guidelines, as identified by the Institute of Medicine, the Conference on Guideline Standardization, and other authorities.[1][2][3][4] The review identified as a deficiency the timeliness of Stroke Council guidelines.The accelerated pace of research and therapeutic advance in stroke had begun to outpace the Council's ad hoc system for guideline development and update, which relied on convening of new writing panels when there was a general perception among the Council Leadership Committee that a particular guideline was needed or no longer current.In response to this finding, the Stroke Council developed and implemented a new system to ensure that key Stroke Council practice guidelines are always up-to-date.The Council created the multispecialty Stroke Scientific Statements Oversight Committee (SOC), with Jeffrey Saver, MD as initial Chair, to oversee the commissioning of individual guideline-writing committees, approve the membership of committees, refine the general Stroke guideline methodology, and provide additional support as may be needed.This Committee commissioned Standing Scientific/Writing Committees in six key areas of stroke care: (1) Primary Prevention of Stroke, (2) Secondary Prevention after Stroke, (3) Acute Ischemic Stroke, (4) Intracerebral Hemorrhage, (5) Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, and (6) Stroke Rehabilitation.Each of these Standing Committees is to produce a full, comprehen-
Source: Stroke
Authors: Jeffrey L. Saver, Larry B. Goldstein
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, Duke University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016905859