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You Cannot Improve What You Do Not Measure

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) has been classically divided into acute and chronic disease based upon the time of onset with chronic GVHD (cGVHD) occurring after day 100. However, this division at day 100 is artificial. There has been a shift toward defining acute GVHD (aGVHD) and cGVHD based upon clinical manifestations, rather than the arbitrary cutoff of a particular date posttransplantation. A major step forward was taken in 2005, when a National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus conference was held to refine methods for research in cGVHD, including proposed objective response measures and a provisional algorithm for calculating organ-specific and overall response.

Source: Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.07.001

Author: Nelson Chao

Institutions: Duke University, Duke Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Subfield: Hematology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,650