Reporting specifications regarding epilepsy practice guidelines based on the RIGHT reporting checklist: an analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Clinical guidelines are designed to optimise patient care and provide efficient approaches for therapy. Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder that continues to experience a considerable treatment gap due to non-standard recommendations. We assessed the reporting quality of clinical practice guidelines on epilepsy over the past 5 years to generate a reporting specification for this study.

Setting

Seven databases were searched in May 2018 focusing on the period from 2013 to 2018. These included Medline, EMBASE, PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang and Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database (VIP). Reporting quality of epilepsy guidelines was assessed by two independent authors using

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924717 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature