An evaluation of the COVID-19 recommendation map identified diverging clinical and public health guidance.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe divergence between actionable statements issued by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) guideline developers cataloged on the "COVID-19 Recommendations and Gateway to Contextualization" platform.

Study design and setting

We defined divergence as at least two comparable actionable statements with different explicit judgments of strength, direction, or subgroup consideration of the population or intervention. We applied a content analysis to compare guideline development methods for a sample of diverging statements and to evaluate factors associated with divergence.

Results

Of the 138 guidelines evaluated, 85 (62%) contained at least one statement that diverged from another guideline. We identified 223 diverging statements in these 85 guidelines. W

SUBMITTER: Nasir ZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942881 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature