Current Status of Clinical Practice Guidelines in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The development process of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) must adhere to development standards and must be supported and steered by a representative and consistent governing body. We aimed to investigate the current status of the most recent CPGs published in Korea through surveys of medical professional societies and literature searches.

Methods

We collected CPGs developed in Korea in the past 5 years through several electronic database searches (MEDLINE, Embase, and KoreaMed), hand searches, and surveys of medical society memberships from the Korean Academy Medical Societies. Three authors selected Korean CPGs according to our inclusion/exclusion criteria and extracted data from selected CPGs about general characteristics, characteristics of CPGs for setup,

SUBMITTER: Choi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7870424 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature