Recommendations for kidney disease guideline updating: a report by the KDIGO Methods Committee.

ABSTRACT: Updating rather than de novo guideline development now accounts for the majority of guideline activities for many guideline development organizations, including Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), an international kidney disease guideline development entity that has produced guidelines on kidney diseases since 2008. Increasingly, guideline developers are moving away from updating at fixed intervals in favor of more flexible approaches that use periodic expert assessment of guideline currency (with or without an updated systematic review) to determine the need for updating. Determining the need for guideline updating in an efficient, transparent, and timely manner is challenging, and updating of systematic reviews and guidelines is labor intensive. Ideally, guidelines should

SUBMITTER: Uhlig K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547823 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature