The International Guideline Evaluation Screening Tool (IGEST): development and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guideline adaptation provides an important alternative to de novo guideline development by making the process more efficient and reducing unnecessary duplication. The quality evaluation of international guidelines is an essential part of the adaptation process. The study aims at describing the development and validation of a new tool to screen trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for their adoption/adaption: the International Guideline Evaluation Screening Tool (IGEST).

Methods

The process of developing the IGEST involved two main phases: 1) tool development and 2) content validation. The tool development phase comprised three stages, where the scope of the IGEST was defined and the item pool was generated and refined. The content validation was perform

SUBMITTER: D'angelo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9088113 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature