SynthesisJournal of clinical epidemiology2022
International alliance and AGREE-ment of 71 clinical practice guidelines on the management of critical care patients with COVID-19: a living systematic review.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Anesthesia Trauma Guidelines: A Systematic Review of Global Accessibility and Quality.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and critical evaluation of quality of clinical practice guidelines on the management of SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2022Pooled it
- Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines for neonatal sepsis using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II Instrument: A systematic review of neonatal guidelines.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- A living critical interpretive synthesis to yield a framework on the production and dissemination of living evidence syntheses for decision-making.Implementation science : IS · 2024Review
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- A protocol for adapting a clinical practice guideline for the treatment of paediatric asthma for the Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee.Clinical and public health guidelines · 2024Article
- Advancing guideline quality through country-wide and regional quality assessment of CPGs using AGREE: a scoping review.BMC medical research methodology · 2023Article
- Methodological quality and reporting quality of COVID-19 living systematic review: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical research methodology · 2023Article
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- Searching for evidence in public health emergencies: a white paper of best practices.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2023Article
- Guidelines developed under pressure. The case of the COVID-19 low-quality "rapid" guidelines and potential solutions.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2022Article
- Characteristics of Living Systematic Review for COVID-19.Clinical epidemiology · 2022Article
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29 authors at 16 institutions in 10 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveWe aimed to systematically identify and critically assess the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the management of critically ill patients with COVID-19 with the AGREE II instrument. STUDY DESIGN AND
settingWe searched Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE, CNKI, CBM, WanFang, and grey literature from November 2019 - November 2020. We did not apply language restrictions. One reviewer independently screened the retrieved titles and abstracts, and a second reviewer confirmed the decisions. Full texts were assessed independently and in duplicate. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. We included any guideline that provided recommendations on the management of critically ill patients with COVID-19. Data extraction was performed independently and in duplicate by two reviewers. We descriptively summarized CPGs characteristics. We assessed the quality with the AGREE II instrument and we summarized relevant therapeutic interventions.
resultsWe retrieved 3,907 records and 71 CPGs were included. Means (Standard Deviations) of the scores for the 6 domains of the AGREE II instrument were 65%(SD19.56%), 39%(SD19.64%), 27%(SD19.48%), 70%(SD15.74%), 26%(SD18.49%), 42%(SD34.91) for the scope and purpose, stakeholder involvement, rigor of development, clarity of presentation, applicability, editorial independence domains, respectively. Most of the CPGs showed a low overall quality (less than 40%).
conclusionFuture CPGs for COVID-19 need to rely, for their development, on standard evidence-based methods and tools.
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