Evaluation of the reporting quality of clinical practice guidelines on prostate cancer using the RIGHT checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The International Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare (RIGHT) statement is a set of recommendations for reporting in clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). We aimed to use RIGHT to evaluate the reporting quality of CPGs on prostate cancer.

Methods

We systematically searched literature databases and websites from January 1, 2018 to December 1, 2020 to identify CPGs on prostate cancer. Two investigators reviewed the identified articles and assessed the reporting quality independently by using the RIGHT checklist. We reported the proportions of guidelines that complied with each of the 35 RIGHT checklist item and the mean reporting compliance percentages for each of the seven domains of RIGHT.

Results

A total of 38 CPGs were included. The mean

SUBMITTER: Liu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350620 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature