ReviewJournal of global health2017
Methods used in adaptation of health-related guidelines: A systematic survey.
Review in Journal of global health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Postnatal care after gestational diabetes - a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- Implementation and evaluation of a technical support center for the Research to Enhance the Adaptation and Implementation of Health Systems Guidelines in LMICs [RAISE] initiative.Health research policy and systems · 2026Article
- Modifications to the Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS) coding scheme: A scoping review.Patient education and counseling · 2026Article
- Compliance with the national and WHO antibiotic treatment guidelines for respiratory tract infections and their association with clinical and economic outcomes in Vietnam: an observational study.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Article
- Awareness of adapting clinical practice guidelines to a local context.Clinical and public health guidelines · 2025Article
- Locally adapted guidelines: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- The development of the GIN-McMaster checklist extension for guideline adaptation protocol.Clinical and public health guidelines · 2025Article
- A synthesis of qualitative evidence of barriers and facilitators in implementing guidelines for TB testing in healthcare settings.Implementation science communications · 2024Review
- Development, Evaluation, and impLemenTation for guideline adaptation: a quality improvement protocol for the DELTA study in global health practice.Health research policy and systems · 2023Article
- Current practices and challenges in adaptation of clinical guidelines: a qualitative study based on semistructured interviews.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Contextual differences considered in the Tunisian ADOLOPMENT of the European guidelines on breast cancer screening.Health research policy and systems · 2021Article
- In the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak: Early practical guidelines for psychosocial aspects of COVID-19 in East Java, Indonesia.Psychiatry research · 2020Review
- Mapping the nomenclature, methodology, and reporting of studies that review methods: a pilot methodological review.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- Health promoter, advocate, legitimiser - the many roles of WHO guidelines: a qualitative study.Health research policy and systems · 2019Article
- Extending the RIGHT statement for reporting adapted practice guidelines in healthcare: the RIGHT-Ad@pt Checklist protocol.BMJ open · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAdaptation refers to the systematic approach for considering the endorsement or modification of recommendations produced in one setting for application in another as an alternative to de novo development.
objectiveTo describe and assess the methods used for adapting health-related guidelines published in peer-reviewed journals, and to assess the quality of the resulting adapted guidelines.
methodsWe searched Medline and Embase up to June 2015. We assessed the method of adaptation, and the quality of included guidelines.
resultsSeventy-two papers were eligible. Most adapted guidelines and their source guidelines were published by professional societies (71% and 68% respectively), and in high-income countries (83% and 85% respectively). Of the 57 adapted guidelines that reported any detail about adaptation method, 34 (60%) did not use a published adaptation method. The number (and percentage) of adapted guidelines fulfilling each of the ADAPTE steps ranged between 2 (4%) and 57 (100%). The quality of adapted guidelines was highest for the "scope and purpose" domain and lowest for the "editorial independence" domain (respective mean percentages of the maximum possible scores were 93% and 43%). The mean score for "rigor of development" was 57%.
conclusionMost adapted guidelines published in peer-reviewed journals do not report using a published adaptation method, and their adaptation quality was variable.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.