title: Involving Stakeholders in the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines.
abstract: Clinical practice guidelines make recommendations that are relevant to large populations of practitioners, patients, and administrators. Although not all individuals with interest can physically sit on each development panel, there are numerous opportunities for stakeholder involvement in the guideline development process. Such involvement is encouraged, particularly at the time of topic selection, panel development, scope determination, and prerelease critique. Interface with the guidelines development process may occur either via representation through stakeholder organizations or at the individual level.
authors.affiliation: Division of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA jennifer_shin@meei.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Shin
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
keywords: clinical practice guidelines; guideline development; professional societies