Historical Perspective, Epidemiology, and Methodology
SCD was first reported in the literature in November 1910 by James B. Herrick, who referred to “peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in…
Lesson Category: Chapter 1: Introduction and Methodology
Overview of the SCD guidelines and chapters
This report begins with a chapter on comprehensive health maintenance. Many children and adults with chronic diseases such as SCD do not receive the recommended…
Process and methodology
The expert panel first convened in the spring of 2009 to establish the vision and purpose of the panel, discuss the process and schedule for…
Consensus Statements
The panel believed that, for this guideline document to be most helpful to primary care providers and specialty health care professionals, it needed to be…
Clinical Practice Guidelines and the institute of Medicine
In April 2011, 12 months after the start of the first of the expert panel report’s systematic reviews, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published “Clinical…