Methodological and reporting quality of pediatric clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) can provide systematically developed clinical recommendations to guide pediatric clinicians and patients making decisions. This study aims to assess the methodological and reporting quality of pediatric CPGs.

Methods

We performed a systematic literature search of MEDLINE from 1 January 1990 to 2 April 2020 to identify pediatric CPGs published in the ten highest-impact pediatric journals and four highest-impact general medical journals. Two researchers evaluated the methodological and reporting quality of pediatric CPGs using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument and Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Health care (RIGHT) checklist. We calculated the mean AGREE II scores and co

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421971 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature