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ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2022

Guidelines and evidence-based recommendations in anaesthesia: where do we stand?

Lisa Q Rong, Katia Audisio, Sinead M O'Shaughnessy

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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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

3 authors.

Lisa Q RongDepartment of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: lir9065@med.cornell.edu.
Katia AudisioDepartment of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, and Emergency, Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Turin, Italy.
Sinead M O'ShaughnessyDepartment of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly important to guide clinical care. However, they can vary widely in quality, and many recommendations are based on low-level evidence. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for new flexible formats for rigorously developed guidelines. Future guideline development should be standardised, graded, registered, and updated to ensure that they are 'living' works in progress.

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AnesthesiaCOVID-19HumansPandemicsAGREE IIclinical practice guidelinesGRADEguideline qualityrapid statementsrigour

Identifiers

PMID35314064
PMCPMC8933135

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