Guidelines 2.0: systematic development of a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although several tools to evaluate the credibility of health care guidelines exist, guidance on practical steps for developing guidelines is lacking. We systematically compiled a comprehensive checklist of items linked to relevant resources and tools that guideline developers could consider, without the expectation that every guideline would address each item.

Methods

We searched data sources, including manuals of international guideline developers, literature on guidelines for guidelines (with a focus on methodology reports from international and national agencies, and professional societies) and recent articles providing systematic guidance. We reviewed these sources in duplicate, extracted items for the checklist using a sensitive approach and developed overarc

SUBMITTER: Schunemann HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3928232 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature