Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines for perioperative care and use of GRADE: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Perioperative care is a broad field covering an array of elective and emergency procedures. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for perioperative care exist with various degrees of methodological quality. We intend to critically appraise them using AGREE II instrument and investigate the use of Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE).

Methods and analysis

We searched MEDLINE (Ovid), Epistemonikos, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and PROSPERO and did not identify any similar systematic review in this area. We will search databases, repositories and websites of guideline developers and medical societies, including MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), DynaMed, the GIN international guideline library and registry of guidelines i

SUBMITTER: Kantorova L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671973 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature