title: Who Wrote This Clinical Practice Guideline?
abstract: The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation clinical practice guidelines address a variety of otolaryngologic diseases and/or procedures. It may seem reasonable to create these guidelines by assembling a team of expert clinicians familiar with the pertinent clinical issues and the available evidence, with debate and eventual agreement leading to recommendations. However, trustworthy clinical practice guidelines are in fact created via a defined process to assemble a guideline development group composed of diverse stakeholders: clinician generalists and specialists, content experts, methodologists, physicians and nonphysicians, patients, and advocates. Such a guideline development group can create a valuable and trusted guideline for clinicians and affected patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA dtunkel@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Tunkel
authors.affiliation: American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Stephanie L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D005582:Foundations; D010036:Otolaryngology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014481:United States
keywords: clinical practice guidelines; stakeholders