Scope and aims of European society of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases guidelines: a white paper

Luigia Scudeller; Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas; José Ramon Pano Pardo; ESCMID Guidelines Subcommittee; ESCMID Executive Committee

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2024.11.033

Scope and aims of European society of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases guidelines: a white paper

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Dec 11:S1198-743X(24)00564-0. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.11.033. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Luigia Scudeller¹, Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas², José Ramon Pano Pardo³; ESCMID Guidelines Subcommittee; ESCMID Executive Committee

Collaborators

Tomislav Kostyanev⁴, Miranda Langendam⁵, Jose Molina⁶, Blin Nagavci⁷, Mical Paul⁸, Luigia Scudeller⁹, Jean Paul Stahl¹⁰, Sarah Tschudin Sutter¹¹, Marcus Zervos¹², Emmanuelle Cambau¹³, Fidelma Fitzpatrick¹⁴, Jon S Friedland¹⁵, Anu Kantele¹⁶, Gülsen Özkaya Sahin¹⁷, Jose Ramon Pano Pardo¹⁸, Robert Leo Skov¹⁹, Annelies Zinkernagel²⁰

Affiliations

¹ Scientific Direction, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy. Electronic address: l.scudeller@smatteo.pv.it.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario Zaragoza, Universidad de Zaragoza, IIS Aragón, CIBERINFEC, Zaragoza, Spain.
⁴ Technical University of Denmark, Research Group for Global Capacity Building, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Amsterdam UMC, Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁶ Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla, Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Parasitology, Seville, Spain.
⁷ ESCMID, Gjakove, Republic of Kosovo.
⁸ Rambam Health Care Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Haifa, Israel.
⁹ Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Scientific Direction, Pavia, Italy.
¹⁰ Grenoble Alpes University, Infectious Diseases, Grenoble, France.
¹¹ University Hospital Basel, Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Basel, Switzerland.
¹² Henry Ford Hospital Wayne State University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Detroit, United States.
¹³ Hopital Bichat /University of Paris, Department of Mycobacteriology, Paris, France.
¹⁴ Beaumont Hospital and RCSI, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁵ St. George's School of Health & Medical Sciences, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ University of Helsinki, Division of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁷ Region Skåne, Laboratory Medicine, Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Lund, Sweden.
¹⁸ Hospital Clínico Universitario Zaragoza, Department of Infectious Diseases, Zaragoza, Spain.
¹⁹ Statens Serum Institut, Infectious Disease Preparedness, Copenhagen, Denmark.
²⁰ University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 39672466
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.11.033

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Keywords: GRADE approach; Guidance documents; Guidelines; Implementation; Priority setting; Stakeholder; involvement.