Standardized reporting of clinical practice guidelines: A proposal from the Conference on Guideline Standardization

The quality of clinical practice guidelines over the last two decades: a systematic review of guideline appraisal studies

“…Guideline methodology is a fast-evolving science,59 60 and developers may be lagging behind. Large institutions with sufficient resources are more likely to be able to keep up to date with methodology.…”

The role of group decision making processes in the creation of clinical guidelines

“…Recommendations may be the result of complex and diffi cult decisions. Despite many proposals about what form guidelines should take (Black et al, 1999;Shiffman et al, 2003;Woolf, 1998) research on how they are collaboratively produced is limited, but does suggest the process is infl uenced by many factors in ways that are not well understood. For example, prior research suggests that evidence is not necessarily the biggest infl uence on the content of guideline recommendations (Burgers et al, 2002).…”

Toward stronger evidence on quality improvement. Draft publication guidelines: the beginning of a consensus project

“…They have been developed with informal input from people with extensive experience in quality improvement, medical ethics, clinical research, and medical editing, and have been modified in response to feedback from people who have used them in writing and critiquing reports of quality improvement projects. They generally conform to the principles used in creating guidelines for reporting randomized clinical trials, 27 and for studies that use other designs [28][29][30][31][32][33] and studies in specific content areas. 34 35 Importantly, the consistency and completeness of reporting has been found to improve in journals that have endorsed and used such guidelines.…”