Reporting quality of European and Croatian health practice guidelines according to the RIGHT reporting checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health practice guidelines (HPGs) are important tools for the translation of evidence into practice. Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in HealThcare (RIGHT) checklist provides guidance on reporting health practice guidelines (HPGs). We assessed the reporting completeness and quality of a set of national (Croatian) and relevant transnational (European) HPGs.

Methods

The national sample included all HPGs published in the official journal of the Croatian Medical Association in 2014-2016. We searched PubMed to identify relevant European guidelines (n = 24). Two independent reviewers assessed the adherence with the items on the RIGHT checklist. Kappa score was used to measure the level of agreement. Frequentist and Bayes statistics Bayes factor (BF₁₀)

SUBMITTER: Tokalic R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206632 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature