Guidelines are increasingly determining the decision process in day-to-day clinical work.
Guidelines describe the current best possible standard in diagnostics and therapy. They
should be developed by an international panel of experts, whereby alongside individual
experience, above all, the results of comparative studies are decisive. According to the
results of high-ranking scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals, statements
and recommendations are formulated, and these are graded strictly according to the criteria …

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Kukleta• K. LeBlanc• D. Lomanto• MC Misra• S. Morales-Conde• B. Ramshaw• W. Reinpold•
S. Rim• M. Rohr• R. Schrittwieser• Th. Simon• M. Smietanski• B. Stechemesser• M. Timoney•
P. Chowbey