The National Institutes of Health convenes consensus development conferences on various topics. Pertinent to practice in breast cancer, its most recent conference held November 1-3, 2000, addressed adjuvant therapy for breast cancer. The conclusions of the conference statement are reported below. The full NIH Consensus Statement on Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer is available by calling 1-88...

OBJECTIVE To develop core competencies for learning health system (LHS) researchers to guide the development of training programs. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Data were obtained from literature review, expert interviews, a modified Delphi process, and consensus development meetings. STUDY DESIGN The competencies were developed from August to December 2016 using qualitative methods. DATA CO...

Objective Birth cohort studies (BCS) have generated a wealth of invaluable basic scientific and policy-relevant information on wide range issues in child health development. This study sought to explore what research questions are currently priority for the next generation BCS using 3-round Delphi survey interdisciplinary experts. Methods Twenty-four (Round I, N = 17; Round II, 21; III, 18) exp...

We introduce the following basic voting method: Voters submit both a “consensus” and a “fall-back” ballot. If all “consensus” ballots name the same option, it wins; otherwise a randomly drawn “fall-back” ballot decides. If there is one potential consensus option that everyone prefers to the benchmark lottery which picks the favourite of a randomly drawn voter, then naming that option on all “co...

We describe a software development process designed for an integration and usage of formal methods into practical software process models in a scalable way. Our process model is an extension of the V-model, and allows the speciication of critical components and the verii-cation of crucial development steps. For diierent development stages we suggest user-oriented description techniques, based o...