Development of a prioritisation tool for the updating of clinical guideline questions: the UpPriority Tool protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Due to a continuous emergence of new evidence, clinical guidelines (CGs) require regular surveillance of evidence to maintain their trustworthiness. The updating of CGs is resource intensive and time consuming; therefore, updating may include a prioritisation process to efficiently ensure recommendations remain up to date. The objective of our project is to develop a pragmatic tool to prioritise clinical questions for updating within a CG.

Methods and analysis

To develop the tool, we will use the results and conclusions of a systematic review of methodological research on prioritisation processes for updating and will adopt a methodological approach we have successfully implemented in a previous experience.We will perform a multistep process including (1) genera

SUBMITTER: Martinez Garcia L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5724084 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature