Interpreting GRADE's levels of certainty or quality of the evidence: GRADE for statisticians, considering review information size or less emphasis on imprecision?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2016, Pages 6-15

  Schünemann, Holger J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Certainty of evidence; GRADE; Optimal information size; Quality of evidence; Review information size; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRADING OF RECOMMENDATIONS ASSESSMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84964847386     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.03.018     Document Type: Note

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