Development of an international glossary for clinical guidelines collaboration

Rachel E Christensen¹, Michael D Yi¹, Bianca Y Kang², Sarah A Ibrahim², Noor Anvery², McKenzie Dirr², Stephanie Adams³, Yasser S Amer⁴, Alexandre Bisdorff⁵, Lisa Bradfield⁶, Steve Brown⁷, Amy Earley⁸, Lisa A Fatheree⁹, Pierre Fayoux¹⁰, Thomas Getchius¹¹, Pamela Ginex¹², Amanda Graham¹³, Courtney R Green¹⁴, Paolo Gresele¹⁵, Helen Hanson¹⁶, Norrisa Haynes¹⁷, Laszlo Hegedüs¹⁸, Heba Hussein¹⁹, Priya Jakhmola²⁰, Lucia Kantorova²¹, Rathika Krishnasamy²², Alex Krist²³, Gregory Landry²⁴, Erika D Lease²⁵, Luis Ley²⁶, Gemma Marsden²⁷, Tim Meek²⁸, Martin Meremikwu²⁹, Carmen Moga³⁰, Saphia Mokrane³¹, Amol Mujoomdar³², Skye Newton³³, Norma O'Flynn³⁴, Gavin D Perkins³⁵, Emma-Jane Smith³⁶, Chatura Prematunge¹³, Jenna Rychert³⁷, Mindy Saraco³⁸, Holger J Schünemann³⁹, Emily Senerth⁴⁰, Alan Sinclair⁴¹, James Shwayder⁴², Carla Stec³, Suzana Tanni⁴¹, Nichole Taske⁴³, Robyn L Temple-Smolkin⁴³, Louise Thomas⁴⁴, Sherene Thomas⁴⁵, Britt Tonnessen⁴⁶, Amy S Turner⁴⁷, Anne Van Dam⁴⁸, Mitchell van Doormaal⁴⁹, Yung Liang Wan⁵⁰, Christina B Ventura⁵¹, Emma McFarlane⁵², Rebecca L Morgan⁵³, Toju Ogunremi⁵⁴, Murad Alam⁵⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland.
² Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Clinical Practice Guidelines, American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
⁴ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Pediatrics Department and Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Scientific Council for Health Care, Luxembourg.
⁶ American Society for Radiation Oncology, VA, USA.
⁷ University of Sheffield, UK.
⁸ Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), Brussels, Belgium.
⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; American College of Rheumatology, OH, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France.
¹¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology, Dallas, Texas, USA.
¹² Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Stony Brook University School of Nursing, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
¹³ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁴ The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine and Surgery - Head section of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
¹⁶ St. George's University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁷ Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
¹⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, and Periodontology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
²⁰ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
²¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
²² Department of Nephrology, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Australia; The University of Queensland, Australia.
²³ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA.
²⁴ Division of Vascular Surgery, Kootenai Clinic, Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA.
²⁵ University of Washington, WA, USA.
²⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
²⁷ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Healthcare Infection Society, London UK.
²⁸ Association of Anaesthetists, London, UK.
²⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.
³⁰ Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
³¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; WOREL (Werkgroep Ontwikkeling Richtlijnen Eerste Lijn) - Working Group Development of Primary Care Guidelines, Belgium; Department of Primary Care, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³² Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Medical Imaging, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
³³ Adelaide Health Technology Assessment, University of Adelaide, Australia.
³⁴ Royal College of Physicians, London, UK.
³⁵ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³⁶ European Association of Urology Guidelines Office, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
³⁷ Department of Pathology, University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT.
³⁸ American Diabetes Association, VA, USA.
³⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milano, Italy.
⁴⁰ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴¹ King's College, London, UK.
⁴² Department of Pulmonology, Botucatu Medical School-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴³ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Association for Molecular Pathology, MD, USA.
⁴⁴ Head of Quality Improvement, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK.
⁴⁵ American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Darien, IL, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴⁷ American College of Rheumatology, OH, USA; American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴⁸ Canadian Thoracic Society, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁴⁹ Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF), The Netherlands.
⁵⁰ Dept. of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
⁵¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, USA.
⁵² Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Manchester, UK.
⁵³ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
⁵⁴ Healthcare Associated Infections and Infection Prevention and Control Section, National Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁵⁵ Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: m-alam@northwestern.edu.

PMID: 37019344
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.026

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Development of an international glossary for clinical guidelines collaboration

Rachel E Christensen et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun:158:84-91.

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.026. Epub 2023 Apr 3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland.
² Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Clinical Practice Guidelines, American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
⁴ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Pediatrics Department and Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Scientific Council for Health Care, Luxembourg.
⁶ American Society for Radiation Oncology, VA, USA.
⁷ University of Sheffield, UK.
⁸ Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), Brussels, Belgium.
⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; American College of Rheumatology, OH, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France.
¹¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology, Dallas, Texas, USA.
¹² Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Stony Brook University School of Nursing, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
¹³ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁴ The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine and Surgery - Head section of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
¹⁶ St. George's University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁷ Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
¹⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, and Periodontology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
²⁰ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
²¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
²² Department of Nephrology, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Australia; The University of Queensland, Australia.
²³ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA.
²⁴ Division of Vascular Surgery, Kootenai Clinic, Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA.
²⁵ University of Washington, WA, USA.
²⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
²⁷ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Healthcare Infection Society, London UK.
²⁸ Association of Anaesthetists, London, UK.
²⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.
³⁰ Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
³¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; WOREL (Werkgroep Ontwikkeling Richtlijnen Eerste Lijn) - Working Group Development of Primary Care Guidelines, Belgium; Department of Primary Care, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³² Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Medical Imaging, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
³³ Adelaide Health Technology Assessment, University of Adelaide, Australia.
³⁴ Royal College of Physicians, London, UK.
³⁵ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
³⁶ European Association of Urology Guidelines Office, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
³⁷ Department of Pathology, University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT.
³⁸ American Diabetes Association, VA, USA.
³⁹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milano, Italy.
⁴⁰ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴¹ King's College, London, UK.
⁴² Department of Pulmonology, Botucatu Medical School-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴³ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; Association for Molecular Pathology, MD, USA.
⁴⁴ Head of Quality Improvement, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK.
⁴⁵ American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Darien, IL, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴⁷ American College of Rheumatology, OH, USA; American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴⁸ Canadian Thoracic Society, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁴⁹ Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF), The Netherlands.
⁵⁰ Dept. of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
⁵¹ Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, USA.
⁵² Guidelines International Network (GIN), Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, Scotland; National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Manchester, UK.
⁵³ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
⁵⁴ Healthcare Associated Infections and Infection Prevention and Control Section, National Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁵⁵ Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: m-alam@northwestern.edu.

PMID: 37019344
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.026

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Corrigendum to "Development of an international glossary for clinical guidelines collaboration" "[Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 158 (2023) 84-91]".
Christensen RE, Yi MD, Kang BY, Ibrahim SA, Anvery N, Dirr M, Adams S, Amer YS, Bisdorff A, Bradfield L, Brown S, Earley A, Fatheree LA, Fayoux P, Getchius T, Ginex P, Graham A, Green CR, Gresele P, Hanson H, Haynes N, Hegedüs L, Hussein H, Jakhmola P, Kantorova L, Krishnasamy R, Krist A, Landry G, Lease ED, Ley L, Marsden G, Meek T, Meremikwu M, Moga C, Mokrane S, Mujoomdar A, Newton S, O'Flynn N, Perkins GD, Smith EJ, Prematunge C, Rychert J, Saraco M, Schünemann HJ, Senerth E, Sinclair A, Shwayder J, Stec C, Tanni S, Taske N, Temple-Smolkin RL, Thomas L, Thomas S, Tonnessen B, Turner AS, Van Dam A, van Doormaal M, Wan YL, Ventura CB, McFarlane E, Morgan RL, Ogunremi T, Alam M. Christensen RE, et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2024 Nov;175:111514. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111514. Epub 2024 Sep 30. J Clin Epidemiol. 2024. PMID: 39353833 No abstract available.

Abstract

Objectives: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are often created through collaboration among organizations. The use of inconsistent terminology may cause poor communication and delays. This study aimed to develop a glossary of terms related to collaboration in guideline development.

Study design and setting: A literature review of collaborative guidelines was performed to develop an initial list of terms related to guideline collaboration. The list of terms was presented to the members of the Guideline International Network Guidelines Collaboration Working Group, who provided presumptive definitions for each term and proposed additional terms to be included. The revised list was subsequently reviewed by an international, multidisciplinary panel of expert stakeholders. Recommendations received during this pre-Delphi review were implemented to augment an initial draft glossary. The glossary was then critically evaluated and refined through two rounds of Delphi surveys and a virtual consensus meeting with all panel members as Delphi participants.

Results: Forty-nine experts participated in the pre-Delphi survey, and 44 participated in the two-round Delphi process. Consensus was reached for 37 terms and definitions.

Conclusion: Uptake and utilization of this guideline collaboration glossary by key organizations and stakeholder groups may facilitate collaboration among guideline-producing organizations by improving communication, minimizing conflicts, and increasing guideline development efficiency.

Keywords: Clinical; Collaboration; Delphi; Development; Glossary; Guideline; International; Practice; Validation.

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