ReviewWorld journal of urology2011
Rating the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations using GRADE.
Review in World journal of urology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of physical activity-based interventions to prevent or reduce chronic post-surgical pain.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical significance and minimal clinically important differences for the survival outcomes in randomized clinical trials of lung cancer.BMC cancer · 2025Pooled it
- Rate and reasons for peritoneal dialysis dropout following haemodialysis to peritoneal dialysis switch: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC nephrology · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Biosecurity in Disease Prevention and Control in Livestock Farms in Africa.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Clinical guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous warts (2022).Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2022Guideline
- Guidelines on the treatment with integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine for severe coronavirus disease 2019.Pharmacological research · 2021Guideline
- Measures of Workplace Inclusion: A Systematic Review Using the COSMIN Methodology.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the health sciences: Best practice methods for research syntheses.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Pooled it
- Imaging versus no imaging for low back pain: a systematic review, measuring costs, healthcare utilization and absence from work.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2019Pooled it
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- Clinical practice guideline for Traditional Chinese Medicine: cervical radiculopathy.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025Article
- Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of tardive dyskinesia in Europe: A descriptive review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- International standard of Traditional Chinese Medicine Techniques: Traditional Chinese Medicine guidelines for acute primary headache (2022).Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2024Article
- Protocols for Traditional Chinese Medicine guidelines for acute primary headache.Journal of translational internal medicine · 2023Article
- Which Type of Exercise During Radiation Therapy Is Optimal to Improve Fatigue and Quality of Life in Men with Prostate Cancer? A Bayesian Network Analysis.European urology open science · 2022Article
- Newer Minimally Invasive Treatment Modalities to Treat Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Attributed to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.European urology open science · 2021Review
- The fate of urological systematic reviews registered in PROSPERO.World journal of urology · 2020Article
- Advancing Canadian Urological Association guidelines using GRADE.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2018Article
- Relationship between Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and the Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.International journal of endocrinology · 2017Review
- Guidelines in cardiac clinical practice: evaluation of their methodological quality using the AGREE II instrument.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2013Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesUrologists can benefit from a standardized system for guideline development and presentation. This article introduces the GRADE system and explains how it may be useful for Urologic physicians, in their practice and in their healthcare systems.
methodsThe GRADE system is reviewed. Specific aspects of how GRADE rates the quality of the evidence and the strength of recommendations are explored.
resultsGRADE can provide explicit and structured guidance, which separates the quality of evidence from the strength of recommendations. This information can be used by consumers of guidelines, including patients, physicians, and policy makers.
conclusionsUrologists can benefit from a more transparent and rigorous framework when formulating recommendations. GRADE is an emergent proposal with broader implications for healthcare policy as well.
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