Guideline panels should not GRADE good practice statements

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1. Electronic address: guyatt@mcmaster.ca.
² Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Evidence-based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
⁴ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Cario Street, Riad-El-Solh Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.

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Gordon H Guyatt et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015 May.

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¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1. Electronic address: guyatt@mcmaster.ca.
² Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Evidence-based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
⁴ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Cario Street, Riad-El-Solh Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.

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