Evaluating clinical practice guidelines developed for the management of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancers and assessing the reliability and validity of the AGREE instrument

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 729-736

  Irani, Shirin ^a,b   Rashidian, Arash ^a,c   Yousefi Nooraie, Reza ^c,d   Soltani, Akbar ^c,e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

AGREE instrument; clinical practice guideline; thyroid cancers; thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

APPRAISAL OF GUIDELINES RESEARCH AND EVALUATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; VALIDITY;

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 79961062499     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01561.x     Document Type: Article

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