Guideline panels should seldom make good practice statements: guidance from the GRADE Working Group

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address: guyatt@mcmaster.ca.
² Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, CIBERESP-IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada.
⁴ Division of Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, USF Health Program for Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Health Outcomes Research, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
⁵ AWMF-Institute for Medical Knowledge Management (IMWi), Karl-von-Frisch-Street 1, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
⁶ Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Im Mediapark 8, D-50670 Cologne, Germany.
⁷ Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁸ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Riad-El-Solh Beirut, 1107 2020 Beirut, Lebanon.

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Gordon H Guyatt et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 Dec.

. 2016 Dec:80:3-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.07.006. Epub 2016 Jul 22.

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address: guyatt@mcmaster.ca.
² Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, CIBERESP-IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada.
⁴ Division of Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, USF Health Program for Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Health Outcomes Research, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
⁵ AWMF-Institute for Medical Knowledge Management (IMWi), Karl-von-Frisch-Street 1, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
⁶ Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Im Mediapark 8, D-50670 Cologne, Germany.
⁷ Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁸ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Riad-El-Solh Beirut, 1107 2020 Beirut, Lebanon.

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Guideline panels should not GRADE good practice statements.
Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ, Djulbegovic B, Akl EA. Guyatt GH, et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015 May;68(5):597-600. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.12.011. Epub 2014 Dec 31. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015. PMID: 25660962 No abstract available.