Appraisal tools for clinical practice guidelines: A systematic review

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Siering, Ulrich ^a   Eikermann, Michaela ^b   Hausner, Elke ^a   Hoffmann Eßer, Wiebke ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; APPRAISAL TOOL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INDEPENDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MEDLINE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDLINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84891915964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082915     Document Type: Article

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