What Determines the Quality of Rehabilitation Clinical Practice Guidelines?: An Overview Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the study was to determine what factors determine the quality of rehabilitation clinical practice guidelines.

Design

Six databases were searched for articles that had applied the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II quality assessment tool to rehabilitation clinical practice guidelines. The 573 deduplicated abstracts were independently screened by two authors, resulting in 81 articles, the full texts of which were independently screened by two authors for Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II application to rehabilitation clinical practice guidelines, resulting in a final selection of 40 reviews appraising 504 clinical practice guidelines. Data were extracted from these by one author and checked by a second. Data on each cl

SUBMITTER: Dijkers MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8265547 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature