The structure of the quality of clinical practice guidelines with the items and overall assessment in AGREE II: a regression analysis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE) II has been widely used to evaluate the quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). While the relationship between the overall assessment of CPGs and scores of six domains were reported in previous studies, the relationship between items constituting these domains and the overall assessment has not been analyzed. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the score of each item and the overall assessment and identify items that could influence the overall assessment. METHODS:All Japanese CPGs developed using the evidence-based medicine method and published from 2011 to 2015 were used. They were independently evaluated by three appraisers using AGREE II. The evaluation results were analyzed using regre

SUBMITTER: Hatakeyama Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827207 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature