Grades for quality of evidence were associated with distinct likelihoods that treatment effects will remain stable

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 489-497

  Gartlehner, Gerald ^a,b   Sommer, Isolde ^a   Evans, Tammeka Swinson ^b   Thaler, Kylie ^a   Lohr, Kathleen N ^b  

^a DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty of treatment effects; GRADE; Quality of evidence; Stability of treatment effects; Survey; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE CENTER; GRADING OF RECOMMENDATIONS ASSESSMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION APPROACH; INTERVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THERAPY EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY; CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA COLLECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84928226821     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.09.018     Document Type: Article

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