Community-acquired Pneumonia Guideline Recommendations-Impact of a Consensus-based Process versus Systematic Reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The American Thoracic Society (ATS)/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Community-acquired Pneumonia (CAP) guidelines were developed using systematic reviews to inform every recommendation, as suggested by the Institute of Medicine Standards for Trustworthy Guidelines. Recent studies suggest that an expert consensus-based approach, called the Convergence of Opinion on Recommendations and Evidence (CORE) process, can produce recommendations that are concordant with recommendations informed by systematic reviews.

Purpose

The goal of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of the CORE process had it been used to develop the ATS/IDSA CAP guidelines.

Methods

Experts in CAP who were not on the guideline panel and had no knowledge of the guideline's syste

SUBMITTER: Wilson KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8677595 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature