The European Stroke Organisation Guidelines: a standard operating procedure

In 2008, the recently founded European Stroke Organisation published its guidelines for the management of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack. This highly cited document was translated in several languages and was updated in 2009. Since then, the European Stroke Organisation has published guidelines for the management of intracranial aneurysms and subarachnoidal hemorrhage, for the establishment of stroke units and stroke centers, and recently for the management of intracerebral hemorrhage. In recent years, the methodology for the development of guidelines has evolved significantly. To keep pace with this progress and driven by the strong determination of the European Stroke Organisation to further promote stroke management, education, and research, the European Stroke Organisation decided to delineate a detailed standard operating procedure for its guidelines. There are two important cornerstones in this standard operating procedure: The first is the implementation of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation methodology for the development of its Guideline Documents. The second one is the decision of the European Stroke Organisation to move from the classical model of a single Guideline Document about a major topic (e.g. management of ischemic stroke) to focused modules (i.e. subdivisions of a major topic). This will enable the European Stroke Organisation to react faster when new developments in a specific stroke field occur and updat...

Source: International Journal of Stroke - July 6, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: George Ntaios, Natan M. Bornstein, Valeria Caso, Hanne Christensen, Jacques De Keyser, Hans‐Christoph Diener, Exuperio Diez‐Tejedor, Jose M. Ferro, Gary A. Ford, Armin Grau, Emanuella Keller, Didier Leys, David Russell, Danilo Toni, Guillaume Turc, Ba Tags: Guidelines Source Type: research