ArticleFamily medicine and community health2023
Trustworthy evidence-based versus untrustworthy guidelines: detecting the difference.
Article in Family medicine and community health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- A Model for Developing Subspecialty Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- Gutflix 'How to Develop Guidelines' Series.United European gastroenterology journal · 2025Article
- Importance, facilitators and barriers for finnish general practitioner involvement in clinical practice guideline panels: a survey.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- New horizons in clinical practice guidelines for use with older people.Age and ageing · 2024Article
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Abstract
Guidelines are essential tools in healthcare decision-making. Trustworthy guidelines inform clinicians not only on the direction (against or in favour) and strength (strong or weak/conditional) of recommendations but also on the certainty of the underlying evidence. Developing trustworthy guidelines requires panellists with clinical and methodological expertise who consider patients' values and preferences. Adherence to trustworthiness standards remains variable; clinicians should, therefore, be able to distinguish trustworthy from untrustworthy guidelines. In this paper, we offer eight domains of disparities between trustworthy evidence-based guidelines and less trustworthy guidelines.
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