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ArticleJournal of clinical epidemiology2021

Getting trustworthy guidelines into the hands of decision-makers and supporting their consideration of contextual factors for implementation globally: recommendation mapping of COVID-19 guidelines.

Tamara Lotfi, Adrienne Stevens, Elie A Akl, Maicon Falavigna, Tamara Kredo, Joseph L Mathew, Holger J Schünemann, eCOVID Collaborators

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Article in Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
9.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Tamara LotfiDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; McMaster GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Adrienne StevensMichael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; McMaster GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Elie A AklDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Maicon FalavignaNational Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Federal Univesity of Rio Grande do Sul, PortoAlegre, Brazil; Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Tamara KredoSouth African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
Joseph L MathewPostgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Holger J SchünemannDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; McMaster GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: schuneh@mcmaster.ca.
eCOVID Collaborators
McMaster University Medical Centre · CAInstituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul · BRMcMaster University · CAPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · INSouth African Medical Research Council · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Published research on COVID-19 is increasing rapidly and integrated in guidelines. The trustworthiness of guidelines can vary depending on the methods used to assemble and evaluate the evidence, the completeness and transparency of reporting on the process undertaken and how conflicts of interest are addressed. With a global consortium of partners and collaborators, we have created a catalogue of COVID-19 recommendations as our direct response to the increased need for structured access to high quality guidance in the field. The COVID19 map of recommendations and gateway to contextualization (https://covid19.recmap.org) is a living project: emerging guideline literature is added on an ongoing basis, allowing granular access to individual recommendations. Building on prior work on mapping recommendations for the World Health Organization tuberculosis guidelines, a novel feature of this map is the self-directed contextualization of the recommendations using the GRADE-Adolopment approach to adopt, adapt or synthesize de novo recommendations for context specific questions. Through our map, stakeholders access the evidence underpinning a recommendation, select what needs to be contextualized and go through the steps of development of adapted recommendations. This one-stop shop portal of evidence-informed recommendations, built with intuitive functionalities, easy to navigate and with a support team ready to guide users across the maps, represents a long-needed tool for decision-makers, guideline developers and the public at large.

Indexed as

Decision MakingHealth PolicyInternationalityCOVID-19HumansPractice Guidelines as TopicSARS-CoV-2COVID-19GRADEGuidelinesHealth policyInternet portalKnowledge translationLiving recommendationsPublic healthQuality appraisal

Identifiers

PMID33836255
PMCPMC8022513
OpenAlexW3148417023

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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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.