ASH organization, oversight, and VTE guidelines project timeline. Process and progress of the American Society of Hematology VTE guidelines. In 2014, the ASH Committee on Quality proposed the project as a collaboration with the McMaster GRADE Centre. After approval of the budget by the ASH Executive Committee in May 2014, the Committee on Quality formed an ASH VTE Guideline Coordination Panel in 2015, composed of 11 individuals with expertise in the clinical management of VTE, guideline methodology, or both. The VTE Guideline Coordination Panel prioritized 10 guideline topics on VTE, determined the general scope for each topic, and recommended panel appointments. This work was accomplished via teleconference calls and an in-person meeting held in June 2015, which was also attended by chairs of the 10 guideline panels. Simultaneously, the ASH Committee on Quality proposed ASH policies and procedures relevant to the project, including a COI policy, which were approved by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee also approved all proposed panel appointments. By 2016, appointments to the 10 VTE guideline panels were finalized, and the general questions to be addressed by the panels had been proposed by the chairs and coordinated by the VTE Guideline Coordination Panel. This panel therefore stopped meeting. Simultaneously in 2016, in response to member demand, the Committee on Quality proposed, and the Executive Committee approved, new guideline projects on other topics, including immune thrombocytopenia and sickle cell disease, as well as collaborative guideline projects with other medical specialty societies. These multiple projects soon demanded more attention than the Committee on Quality could provide. In late 2015, a Guideline Oversight Subcommittee was formed, reporting to the Committee on Quality. Thereafter, the Guideline Oversight Subcommittee assumed responsibility for executing ASH policies and procedures relevant to the VTE guidelines project, including implementation of the ASH COI policy and review of draft guidelines for ASH organizational approval.