title: Medical consensus, guidelines, and position papers: a policy for the ECFS.
abstract: The terms consensus, guideline and position paper are sometimes employed as if they were interchangeable, but the purpose of such documents and the robustness of advice vary as the evidence base does not have the same depth in each. The Board of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society deemed it to be helpful to provide a short commentary on the definition of these terms, on their interconnections and on how ECFS considers them in documents endorsed by the society.
authors: Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: christiane.deboeck@uzleuven.be.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: De Boeck
authors: Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Verona, Italy.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Castellani
authors: Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queens University, Belfast and Adult CF Centre BHSCT, UK.
authors: J S
authors: JS
authors: Elborn
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis; D005060:Europe; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical; D009626:Terminology as Topic
keywords: Cystic Fibrosis; Guidelines; Medical consensus; Position Paper