Development of a Farsi translation of the AGREE instrument, and the effects of group discussion on improving the reliability of the scores

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 676-681

  Rashidian, Arash ^a,c   Yousefi Nooraie, Reza ^b,c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

clinical practice guideline; guideline appraisal; guideline development; Iran

Indexed keywords

APPRAISAL OF GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTENT VALIDITY; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

HUMANS; IRAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84860858950     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01649.x     Document Type: Article

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