Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guyatt, Gordon H
• Oxman, Andrew D
• Vist, Gunn E
• Kunz, Regina
• Falck-Ytter, Yngve
• Schünemann, Holger J

Titel

GRADE: what is "quality of evidence" and why is it important to clinicians?

Ist Teil von

• BMJ. British medical journal (International ed.), 2008-05, Vol.336 (7651), p.995

Auflage

International edition

Ort / Verlag

London: BMJ Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the second of a five-part articles, Guyatt et al focus on the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation's (GRADE) approach to developing and presenting recommendations and show how GRADE has built on previous systems to create a highly structured, transparent, and informative sytem for rating quality of evidence. Among other things, they articulate that GRADE provides a clearly articulated and comprehensive methodology for rating and summarising the quality of evidence supporting management recommendations. Although judgments will always be required for each step, the systematic and transparent GRADE approach allows scrutiny of and debate about those judgments.