Harmonizing guidelines and other clinical practice documents: A joint comprehensive methodology manual by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Research, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia. Electronic address: mln.milojevic@gmail.com.
• ² Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, Va.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, CHUV-Center Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁷ Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: bakaeef@ccf.org.