In 2003, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus panel modified their criteria to include the following:

The late Mark H. Beers, MD, a geriatrician, first created the Beers Criteria in 1991, through a consensus panel of experts by using the Delphi method.

The consensus panel found acupuncture to be definitely useful in treating postoperative dental pain and probably helpful in relieving pain after other forms of surgery.

Nausea The consensus panel concluded that acupuncture was perhaps most effective in alleviating nausea.

The cancer institute's panel had no additional information beyond what the consensus panel had or what the American Cancer Society used.

The first recommendation for antibiotic therapy from a medical group came from the National Institutes of Health consensus panel in 1994.

The study consisted of a steering committee comprising a number of stakeholders, and a consensus panel which would later release a report with a number of recommendations.

Some people are simply "nonresponders," including several of the doctors who presented positive findings to the consensus panel.

Both recommendations went against findings announced in January by a consensus panel of experts convened to advise the National Institutes of Health on mammograms.

They seem to have paid little heed to groups like the consensus panel in January or the National Cancer Institute in 1993 when they said the test had not been shown to benefit younger women.