Durability of class I American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical practice guideline recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known regarding the durability of clinical practice guideline recommendations over time.

Objective

To characterize variations in the durability of class I ("procedure/treatment should be performed/administered") American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline recommendations.

Design, setting, and participants

Textual analysis by 4 independent reviewers of 11 guidelines published between 1998 and 2007 and revised between 2006 and 2013.

Main outcomes and measures

We abstracted all class I recommendations from the first of the 2 most recent versions of each guideline and identified corresponding recommendations in the subsequent version. We classified recommendations replaced by less determinate or contrary recomm

SUBMITTER: Neuman MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4346183 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature