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Practice Guidelines
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Clinical practice guidelines serve as a guide for doctors and outline appropriate methods of treatment and care. Guidelines can address specific clinical situations (disease-oriented) or use of approved medical products, procedures, or tests (modality-oriented). Using the best available evidence, ASCO expert panels identify and develop practice recommendations for specific areas of cancer care that would benefit from the availability of practice guidelines. The criteria for selecting topics for guidelines or technology assessments includes significance of clinical or economic importance; presence of variations in patterns of, or access to, care; availability of suitable data; and ethical considerations.
For reprint requests or other inquiries, please contact the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Department of Cancer Policy & Clinical Affairs, 1900 Duke Street, Ste. 200, Alexandria, VA 22314, (703) 299-1180, or via e-mail at guidelines@asco.org
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Clinical Practice Guidelines:
A guide for doctors outlining appropriate methods of treatment and care. Address specific clinical situations (disease-oriented) use of approved medical products, procedures, or tests (modality-oriented).
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Guideline Clinical Tools and Resources:
View all the guideline clinical tools, summaries, summary slide sets, and patient guidelines. They are grouped by disease site.
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ASCO Guideline Endorsements:
In 2006, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Board of Directors (BOD) approved a policy and a set of procedures for endorsing clinical practice guidelinest hat have been developed by other professional organizations.
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Clinical Evidence Review:
A systematic review of existing literature on topics of interest to the oncology community. These reviews address topical areas associated with clinical uncertainly and likely practice variation, but for which there are insufficient data to inform practice recommendations.
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Guideline Related Resources:
Links to other resources and organizations that develop and disseminate clinical practice guidelines and technology assessments.
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Development Process:
A description of the process by which a guideline/ technology assessment is developed.
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