[How to draft editorial explanation for transparent and concise guideline on clinical practice--Case analysis]

Abstract

Clinical practice guideline (CPG) should be concise and readability, which can be possible to implement CPG into practice smoothly. A formal published CPG can't load its developing process and details. An editorial explanation of CPG is much useful to show details and logic process of developing CPG. Although there are many different standards for developing CPG, being nothing to do with process management of CPG. By referring to editorial explanation on international standards, a request for CPG was investigated in this study. An editorial explanation for clinical practice guideline should be transparency, logic and traceable. A good editorial explanation could make users or readers to learn what goes on behind the scenes. A standardized editorial explanation could supervise the GCP developing and improve the quality of GCP.

Keywords: clinical practice guideline; editorial explanation.