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A quality evaluation of the clinical practice guidelines on breast cancer using the RIGHT checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in women. The methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on breast cancer has been shown to be heterogeneous. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of breast cancer CPGs published in years 2018-2020, using the Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare (RIGHT) checklist.

Methods

We searched Medline (via PubMed), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang and Chinese Biomedical Literature (CBM) as well as websites of guideline organizations for CPGs on breast cancer published between 2018 and 2020. We used the RIGHT checklist to evaluate the reporting quality of the included guidelines by assessing whether the CPGs adhered to each item of the checklist and calculated the proportions of appropriately reported RIGHT checklist items. We also presented the adherence reporting rates for each guideline and the mean rates for each of the seven domains of the RIGHT checklist.

Results

A total of 45 guidelines were included. Eighteen (40.0%) guidelines had an overall reporting rate below 50% and only three (6.7%) reported more than 80% of the items. The domains "Basic information" and "Background" had the highest reporting rates (75.9% and 62.5%, respectively). The mean reporting rates of the domains "Evidence", "Recommendation", "Review and quality assurance", "Funding and declaration and management of interests" and "Other information" were 42.7%, 53.0%, 33.3%, 45.0%, and 44.4%, respectively.

Conclusions

The reporting quality varied among guidelines for breast cancer, showing the need for improvement in reporting the contents. Guideline developers should pay more attention to reporting the evidence, review and quality assurance, and funding and declaration and management of interests in future.

SUBMITTER: Zhou H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350626 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A quality evaluation of the clinical practice guidelines on breast cancer using the RIGHT checklist.

Zhou Hanqiong H Chen Haiyang H Cheng Cheng C Wu Xuan X Ma Yanfang Y Han Jing J Li Ding D Lim Geok Hoon GH Rozen Warren M WM Ishii Naohiro N Roy Pankaj G PG Wang Qiming Q

Annals of translational medicine 20210701 14

<h4>Background</h4>Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in women. The methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on breast cancer has been shown to be heterogeneous. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of breast cancer CPGs published in years 2018-2020, using the Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare (RIGHT) checklist.<h4>Methods</h4>We searched Medline (via PubMed), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang and Chinese ...[more]

PMID: 34430615

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A quality evaluation of the clinical practice guidelines on breast cancer using the RIGHT checklist.

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A quality evaluation of the clinical practice guidelines on breast cancer using the RIGHT checklist.

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