The Guidelines Oversight Committee (GOC) is charged with making recommendations to the CHEST Board of Regents on issues related to health, science, and clinical policy in areas of cardiopulmonary medicine and surgery, critical care, sleep medicine, and related disciplines. The committee is responsible for overseeing the preparation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPG), consensus statements (CS), and hybrid documents on behalf of CHEST.
Mission To optimize patient care by generating the highest quality evidence-based guidelines, consensus statements, and hybrid documents to support clinical practice in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chest diseases.
Vision To assure that CHEST is recognized as the leading resource in the development of evidence-based guidelines in the field of chest medicine.
In keeping with its charge, mission, and vision, the GOC goals are to:
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