The Quality of Practice Guidelines for Melanoma: A Methodologic Appraisal with the AGREE II and AGREE-REX Instruments.

ABSTRACT: Multiple guidelines on cutaneous melanoma (CM) are available from several consortia and countries. To provide up-to-date guidance in the rapidly changing field of melanoma treatment, guideline developers have to provide regular updates without compromises of quality. We performed a systematic search in guideline databases, Medline and Embase to identify guidelines on CM. The methodological quality of the identified guidelines was independently assessed by five reviewers using the instruments "Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation" (AGREE II) and "Recommendation EXcellence" (AGREE-REX). We performed descriptive analysis, explored subgroup differences using the Kruskal-Wallis (H) test and examined the relationship between distinct domains and items of the instruments with Spear

SUBMITTER: Steeb T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7352745 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature