The quality of clinical practice guidelines in China: A systematic assessment

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 961-967

  Hu, Jing ^a,b   Chen, Ru ^a,b   Wu, Shanshan ^a   Tang, Jinling ^c   Leng, Gillian ^d   Kunnamo, Ilkka ^e   Yang, Zhirong ^a,b   Wang, Weiwei ^a,b   Hua, Xinyang ^a,b   Zhang, Yuelun ^a,b   Xie, Yanming ^f   Zhan, Siyan ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^e Finska Lo karforeningen Duodecim   (Finland)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

AGREE instrument; China; clinical practice guidelines; evidence based guidelines; quality assessment; recommendation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIKERT SCALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

AGREE INSTRUMENT; CHINA; CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES; EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RECOMMENDATION;

CHINA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84885005644     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01893.x     Document Type: Article

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