Prioritization strategies in clinical practice guidelines development: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Few methodological studies address the prioritization of clinical topics for the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). The aim of this study was to validate a methodology for Priority Determination of Topics (PDT) of CPGs.

Methods and results

Firstly, we developed an instrument for PDT with 41 criteria that were grouped under 10 domains, based on a comprehensive systematic search. Secondly, we performed a survey of stakeholders involved in CPGs development, and end users of guidelines, using the instrument. Thirdly, a pilot testing of the PDT procedure was performed in order to choose 10 guideline topics among 34 proposed projects; using a multi-criteria analysis approach, we validated a mechanism that followed five stages: determination of the compos

SUBMITTER: Reveiz L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2846928 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature