A guide for health professionals to interpret and use recommendations in guidelines developed with the GRADE approach

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2016, Pages 45-55

  Neumann, Ignacio ^a,b   Santesso, Nancy ^a   Akl, Elie A ^a,c   Rind, David M ^d,e   Vandvik, Per Olav ^f   Alonso Coello, Pablo ^g   Agoritsas, Thomas ^a,h   Mustafa, Reem A ^a,i   Alexander, Paul Elias ^a   Schünemann, Holger ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UpToDate Inc   (United States)

^f NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^g CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^h GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guidelines; Decision making; Evidence based practice; GRADE; Medical education; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

ANTIVITAMIN K; DABIGATRAN;

ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHADS2 SCORE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GRADING OF RECOMMENDATION ASSESSMENT DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION APPROACH; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84961060459     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.11.017     Document Type: Review

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