Barriers to and facilitators of living guidelines use in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Living guidelines provide reliable, ongoing evidence surveillance and regularly updated recommendations for healthcare decision-making. As a relatively new concept, most of the initial application of living approaches has been undertaken in high-income countries. However, in this scoping review, we looked at what is currently known about how living guidelines were developed, used and applied in low-income and middle-income countries.

Methods

Searches for published literature were conducted in Medline, Global Health, Cochrane Library and Embase. Grey literature was identified using Google Scholar and the WHO website. In addition, the reference lists of included studies were checked for missing studies. Studies were included if they described or reflected on the d

SUBMITTER: Meteku BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806715 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature