Design and Patient Characteristics of the Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Response Measures Validation Study

In 2014, the National Institutes of Health sponsored the second Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-vs-Host (GVHD). The purpose was to update recommendations about key elements of chronic GVHD research, including definitions for diagnosis, severity scoring, and response measures, based on empirical data published since the first 2005 Consensus Conference. The most significant modifications were to the response assessments, since studies demonstrated difficulty with the first consensus definitions.

Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - February 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Stephanie J. Lee, Betty K. Hamilton, Joseph Pidala, Amin Alousi, Chareeni Kurukulasuriya, Lynn Onstad, Madan Jagasia, George Chen, Corey Cutler, Raewyn Brody, Mukta Arora, Sally Arai, Stefanie Sarantopoulos, Mary E. Flowers Source Type: research