Erschienen in:
01.12.2015 | Foreword
Low grade glioma guidelines: Foreword
verfasst von:
Jack Rock
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neuro-Oncology
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Ausgabe 3/2015
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Excerpt
In 1994, charged by the Guideline and Outcomes Committee of the Joint Section on Tumors, a multidisciplinary group of clinicians including neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuro-oncologists and radiation oncologists gathered to review the available literature and develop a set of guidelines for the management of patients with low grade gliomas [
1]. At that time the methodology required that selected publications on this topic, as determined by a Medline search of published articles between 1966 and 1994, be sorted into three categories:
Class I
Evidence provided by one or more well-designed, randomized, controlled clinical trials
Class II
Evidence provided by one or more well-designed clinical studies such as case control or cohort studies
Class III
Evidence provided by expert opinions, nonrandomized historical controls, or case reports of one or more patients
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