Adherence of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pharmacologic Treatments of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 to Trustworthy Standards: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic created the need for rapid and urgent guidance for clinicians to manage COVID-19 among patients and prevent transmission.

Objective

To appraise the quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) using the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) criteria.

Evidence review

A search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials to December 14, 2020, and a search of related articles to February 28, 2021, that included CPGs developed by societies or by government or nongovernment organizations that reported pharmacologic treatments of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Teams of 2 reviewers independently abstracted data and assessed CPG quality using the 15-item National Guideline Clearinghouse Extent of Adherence to

SUBMITTER: Burns KEA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665373 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature