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The NIH Consensus Development Program: The Evolution of Guidelines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

John H. Ferguson
Affiliation:
U.S. National Institutes of Health

Abstract

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Program (CDP) Guidelines have undergone some modifications over the program's 18-year history. They have never been published in archival form. This article reviews the evolution of the NIH CDP Guidelines and then presents the complete 1995 version.

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General Essays
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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