Impact and use of reviews and 'overviews of reviews' to inform clinical practice guideline recommendations: protocol for a methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations to assist practitioner and patient decisions about treatments for clinical conditions. High quality and comprehensive systematic reviews and 'overviews of systematic reviews' (overviews) represent the best available evidence. Many guideline developers, such as the WHO and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, recommend the use of these research syntheses to underpin guideline recommendations. We aim to evaluate the impact and use of systematic reviews with and without pairwise meta-analysis or network meta-analyses (NMAs) and overviews in clinical practice guideline (CPG) recommendations.

Methods and analysis

CPGs will be retrieved from Turning Research Into Practice and Epistemonikos

SUBMITTER: Lunny C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature