title: The NIH Consensus Development Program. The evolution of guidelines.
abstract: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Program (CDP) Guidelines have undergone some modifications over the program's 18-year history. They have never been published in archival form. This article reviews the evolution of the NIH CDP Guidelines and then presents the complete 1995 version.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Ferguson
mesh_terms: D015975:Consensus Development Conferences, NIH as Topic; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States