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. 2016 Mar 8:352:i1152.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.i1152.

The AGREE Reporting Checklist: a tool to improve reporting of clinical practice guidelines

Melissa C Brouwers  1 , Kate Kerkvliet  2 , Karen Spithoff  2 ; AGREE Next Steps Consortium
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The AGREE Reporting Checklist: a tool to improve reporting of clinical practice guidelines

Melissa C Brouwers et al. BMJ. .

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Abstract

AGREE II is a widely used standard for assessing the methodological quality of practice guidelines. This article describes the development of the AGREE Reporting Checklist, which was designed to improve the quality of practice guideline reporting and aligns with AGREE II in its structure and content.

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All named authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for this submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

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