What Is the NIH Consensus Development Program?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Program organizes major conferences that produce evidence-based consensus statements addressing controversial issues in medicine important to health care providers, patients, and the general public. NIH Consensus and State-of-the-Science statements are disseminated widely to practitioners, health care policymakers, patients, the general public, and the media. The NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) has administered the program since its inception in 1977.