Strength of recommendation taxonomy (SORT): a patient-centered approach to grading evidence in the medical literature.

By M. Ebell, J. Siwek, B. Weiss, Steven H. Woolf, J. Susman, B. Ewigman, Marjorie A. Bowman. The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Epidemiology, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

• Guidelines of Care for the Management of Atopic Dermatitis Part 4: Prevention of Disease Flares and Use of Adjunctive Therapies and Approaches (2014, methodology): “The available evidence was evaluated using a unified system called the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT) developed by editors of the US family medicine and primary care journals (ie, American Family Physician, Family Medicine, Journal of Family Practice, and BMJ USA).(6) Evidence wasgradedu”
• European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition Guidelines for the Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease (2012, positive): “Grading of evidence was sought with levels of evidence (LOE) based on the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system as a simplified version (12).”
• The Female Athlete Triad (2007, positive): “We used criteria proposed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (52) for evaluating the strength of scientific evidence supporting these clinical recommendations.”
• Chemotherapy‐induced peripheral neurotoxicity: A critical analysis (2013, methodology): “The SORT algorithm was used to indicate strength of recommendations, with level A evidence comprising consistent and good-quality patient-oriented evidence; level B comprising inconsistent or limited-quality patient-oriented evidence; and level C evidence comprising recommendation based on consensus”
• Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques (2007, methodology): “For comparison, our baseline simply returned the first three sentences of the abstract.”
• GUIDELINES OF CARE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS (2014, methodology): “The available evidence was evaluated using a unified system called the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT) developed by editors of the US family medicine and primary care journals (ie, American Family Physician, Family Medicine, Journal of Family Practice, and BMJ USA).(6) Evidence was graded”
• National Athletic Trainers' Association position statement: management of sport concussion. (2014, methodology): “The clinical practice recommendations for each topic have been graded based on the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT; Table 1).(8)”
• Guidelines of care for the management of atopic dermatitis: section 2. Management and treatment of atopic dermatitis with topical therapies. (2014, methodology): “The available evidence was evaluated using a unified system called the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy developed by editors of the US family medicine and primary care journals (ie, American Family Physician, Family Medicine, Journal of Family Practice, and BMJ USA).(6) Evidence was graded using ”