Going from evidence to recommendations

By G. Guyatt, Andrew D. Oxman, Regina Kunz, Y. Falck-Ytter, G. Vist, A. Liberati, Holger J. Schünemann. British medical journal, 2008

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The GRADE system classifies recommendations made in guidelines as either strong or weak. This article explores the meaning of these descriptions and their implications for patients, clinicians, and policy makers

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In General Health Professions

1. T. Dellit
2. S. Cosgrove
3. Matthew H. Samore
4. Ashita Tolwani

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. T. Dellit

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. T. Dellit
2. J. Brożek
3. Judith M. Martin
4. S. Cosgrove
5. M. Gerber
6. Henry F. Chambers
7. Grace Lee
8. J. Llovet

Citations in the corpus

• Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (2013, methodology): “Systematic review teams subsequently conducted systematic or structured/semi-structured reviews and prepared evidence profiles for each of the identified patient-important outcomes as suggested by GRADE [18, 20, 24].”
• KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Glomerulonephritis (2012, background): “confidence in an estimate of effect is sufficient to support a particular recommendation.(760) Grading the quality of evidence for each outcome: Following”
• The methodological quality assessment tools for preclinical and clinical studies, systematic review and meta‐analysis, and clinical practice guideline: a systematic review (2015, background): “In the EBM era and with the surging number of publications, the major attention is “Going from evidence to recommendations” (81, 82).”
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (2013, background): “Based upon this information, most people might pursue this course of action (or not), but a significant number of patients and providers would choose an alternative course of action (4, 44, 45).”