Quality Criteria for Multidisciplinary Oncology Guidelines – the ECCO Multidisciplinary Clinical Guidelines Forum

European Association of NeuroOncology Magazine 2014; 4 (1): 6-8

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Keywords: development group,  ECCO,  multidisciplinary oncology guidelines,  Partner,  quality control

A multidisciplinary oncology guideline is defined as a guideline developed by representatives of (cancer) organizations and deals with cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and care as well as quality and safety of the involved stakeholders. ECCO organized a forum with its members and other oncology organizations to define quality criteria for the development groups, partners, formats, and quality measures to be recognized by ECCO as high-quality multidisciplinary guidelines.