How do cancer screening guidelines trade off benefits versus harms and burdens of screening? A systematic survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Cancer screening guidelines differ in their recommendations for or against screening. To be able to provide explicit recommendations, guidelines need to specify thresholds for the magnitude of benefits of screening, given its harms and burdens. We evaluated how current cancer screening guidelines address the relative importance of benefits versus harms and burdens of screening.

Data source

We searched the Guidelines International Network, International Guideline Library, ECRI Institute and Medline. Two pairs of reviewers independently performed guideline selection and data abstraction.

Eligibility criteria

We included all cancer screening guidelines published in English between January 2014 and April 2019.

Results

Of 68 eligible guidelines, 25 includ

SUBMITTER: Zeng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713181 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature