Guidelines & Consensus Projects
Why Status Plus
Guidelines and consensus publications advance healthcare, professional practice, and scientific understanding. Developing them requires coordination among multiple stakeholders, often alongside their existing professional responsibilities.
Status Plus provides independent project and publishing support that helps societies navigate this complexity. We bring structure and continuity to the development process, allowing authorship teams to focus on the content and recommendations while we manage the practical and publishing requirements.
Our Approach
We establish clear project structures from the outset, defining responsibilities, timelines, decision-making processes, and publication requirements. Throughout development, we coordinate contributors, monitor progress, and address issues that could affect project milestones or publication.
Our support can extend from manuscript preparation and peer review through publication and dissemination, providing continuity across the project lifecycle. Where needed, we collaborate with trusted specialists, statisticians, and qualified research librarians to support methodologically sound literature searches.
What We Do
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We work with society leadership and project leads to define the scope, governance, roles, timelines, and key milestones before development begins. This provides a clear framework for contributors and helps establish how decisions and approvals will be managed throughout the project.
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We help teams establish an appropriate approach to evidence review, consensus development, and reporting. Where additional expertise is required, we can coordinate experienced methodologists, statisticians, and qualified research librarians to support literature searches, evidence reviews, analysis, and other methodological requirements.
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We manage the practical work required to keep projects moving, including coordinating authors and working groups, organizing meetings, tracking actions and deliverables, managing document versions, and following up on outstanding contributions and decisions.
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As the document moves toward publication, we coordinate manuscript preparation and submission requirements and support authorship teams in managing reviewer comments, revisions, approvals, and communication with the journal or publisher.
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We work with societies to plan how published guidance will be communicated and used after publication. Depending on the project and audience, this may include educational activities, supporting materials, digital content, or other initiatives that help bring the recommendations to relevant professional communities.
Planning a Guideline or Consensus Project?
Talk to our team about the project management, methodological, and publishing support needed to move your project from initial planning through publication and dissemination.