SEOM guidelines 2014: improving quality to increase its usefulness

摘要

Since 2010, when the Spanish Society for Medical Oncology (SEOM) started publishing clinical practice guidelines for the management of solid tumours and supportive care, the challenges have evolved from educational purposes to policy purposes. Due to our increasingly complex system, patient care requires cohesive documents on which to base daily decisions [1-3] and SEOM is really committed to working on balancing both sustainability and equity in the access to new treatment options. The aim of the guidelines was to combine updates of common tumours as well as to introduce new issues. This is one the reasons that explains their success as a consolidated project [4]. In the current edition, an independent external committee has been added to ensure the utmost rigour based on the level of evidence and grades of recommendations while maintaining their high practical value. There is no doubt that this decision will increase their value.