Evaluation of guidelines on the screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Guidelines for screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have been updated in the past several years, and various inconsistencies exist across these guidelines. Moreover, the quality of these updated guidelines has not been clarified. We thus conducted this systematic review to evaluate the relationship between the quality and detailed recommendations of these guidelines.

Data sources

The Guidelines International Network Library, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) database, the Medline database, the Embase and the National Guidelines Clearinghouse were searched for guidelines containing recommendations on screening and diagnosis strategies for GDM between 2009 and November 2018.

Methods

Guidelines included a

SUBMITTER: Li-Zhen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502228 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature