Are American follow-up recommendations in endocrinology actionable? A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Clinical guidelines include recommendations to guide patient's longitudinal care. These recommendations may differ in content and quality of supporting evidence from those guiding diagnosis and treatment. We aimed to identify recommendations guiding the follow-up of patients with endocrine conditions, describe their content and quality of evidence.

Methods

We systematically assessed the Endocrine Society and the American Thyroid Association clinical guidelines and identified recommendations guiding follow-up strategies to evaluate direction, content, strength, and quality of evidence.

Results

Out of 1540 recommendations, 138(8.9%) guided follow-up strategies. From these, 109 (79%) recommendations included goal of follow-up, 121(97.7%) suggested follow-up metho

SUBMITTER: Barrera FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796051 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature