Five years of implementation of guidelines in hematology and transfusion medicine in Brazil

Conflicts of interest n 2009, the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia e emoterapia (ABHH) started to participate in an imporant mission proposed by the Associação Médica Brasileira AMB) and the Conselho Federal de Medicina named “Project uidelines”. This project had already been adopted by some ther specialties. It aims to determine diagnostic, monitoring, revention and therapeutic practices according to the best cientific evidence available in the international literature. ome attempts had already been made within hematology, ut without systematization or continuity. Thus the ABHH rought together a group of experts representative of the ost important teaching and research institutions of Brazil nd from the most varied areas of knowledge in hematology o discuss diverse issues. After training, this group prepared everal guidelines from the results of systematic investigaions of the literature. Seventeen priority themes, working roups and their coordinators were defined as were the start nd end dates for each issue. It was decided that all the eports would be published in Portuguese in the journal of he Associação Médica Brasileira (RAMB) and in English in the evista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH). The orking methodology included regular meetings between he group of researchers and those who were carrying out he systematic reviews of the literature. The most important uestions were identified by experts of different fields within linical hematology, pediatric hematology and transfusion edicine. The first set of guidelines, completed and pubished in 2012, was related to chronic myeloid leukemia,1 an