Evaluation of the reporting quality of guidelines for gastric cancer using the RIGHT checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gastric cancer is the fifth most common type of cancer globally. We aimed to evaluate the reporting quality of clinical practice guidelines in the field of gastric cancer.

Methods

We searched Medline (via PubMed), China Biology Medicine, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure and WanFang databases and the websites of the main guideline development organizations from 2018 to 2020 for guidelines on gastric cancer. Data were extracted and the reporting quality evaluated by two researchers independently using the Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare (RIGHT) checklist. We assessed the compliance of the guidelines to each of the 35 items of RIGHT and summarized the reporting proportions of the seven domains of RIGHT.

Results

Eighteen guideline

SUBMITTER: Wu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8267280 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature