Development of Evidence-Based COVID-19 Management Guidelines for Local Context: The Methodological Challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented as a therapeutic challenge for clinicians worldwide due to its rapid spread along with evolving evidence and understanding of the disease. Internationally, recommendations to guide the management of COVID-19 have been created and updated continuously by the WHO and CDC, which have been locally adapted by different countries. Similarly, Pakistan's National Command Operation Center (NCOC), in its national COVID-19 management strategy, generated guidelines for national implementation. Keeping the guidelines updated has proved challenging globally and locally. Here, we present a summary of the process to assess the evidence, including a time-restricted systematic review based on NCOC Clinical Management Guideline

SUBMITTER: Nadeem S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9020141 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature