Use of GRADE for assessment of evidence about prognosis: Rating confidence in estimates of event rates in broad categories of patients

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Iorio, Alfonso ^a   Spencer, Frederick A ^a   Falavigna, Maicon ^b   Alba, Carolina ^c   Lang, Eddie ^d   Burnand, Bernard ^e   McGinn, Tom ^f   Hayden, Jill ^g   Williams, Katrina ^h   Shea, Beverly ^i,j   Wolff, Robert ^k   Kujpers, Ton ^l   Perel, Pablo ^m   Vandvik, Per Olav ⁿ   Glasziou, Paul ^o   Schunemann, Holger ^a   Guyatt, Gordon ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^g DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

ⁱ OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^j INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^k KLEIJNEN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^l DUTCH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (Netherlands)

^m LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^o BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEATH; EATING DISORDER; GRADES OF RECOMMENDATION ASSESSMENT DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION BIAS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84926144235     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h870     Document Type: Article

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