Who's your expert? Use of an expert opinion survey to inform development of american psychiatric association practice guidelines

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 376-382

  Yager, Joel ^a   Kunkle, Robert ^b   Fochtmann, Laura J ^b   Reid, Sara M ^b   Plovnick, Robert ^b   Nininger, James E ^c   Silverman, Joel J ^d   Vergare, Michael J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert opinion panels; Group process; Practice guidelines

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHIATRY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903731576     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: 15457230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-014-0046-6     Document Type: Review

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