TY - JOUR
T1 - Grading the quality of evidence in complex interventions
T2 - A guide for evidence-based practitioners
AU - Murad, M. Hassan
AU - Almasri, Jehad
AU - Alsawas, Mouaz
AU - Farah, Wigdan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited.
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Evidence-based practitioners who want to apply evidence from complex interventions to the care of their patients are often challenged by the difficulty of grading the quality of this evidence. Using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach and an illustrative example, we propose a framework for evaluating the quality of evidence that depends on obtaining feedback from the evidence user (eg, guideline panel) to inform: (1) proper framing of the question, (2) judgements about directness and consistency of evidence and (3) the need for additional contextual and qualitative evidence. Using this framework, different evidence users and based on their needs would consider the same evidence as high, moderate, low or very low.
AB - Evidence-based practitioners who want to apply evidence from complex interventions to the care of their patients are often challenged by the difficulty of grading the quality of this evidence. Using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach and an illustrative example, we propose a framework for evaluating the quality of evidence that depends on obtaining feedback from the evidence user (eg, guideline panel) to inform: (1) proper framing of the question, (2) judgements about directness and consistency of evidence and (3) the need for additional contextual and qualitative evidence. Using this framework, different evidence users and based on their needs would consider the same evidence as high, moderate, low or very low.
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U2 - 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110577
DO - 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110577
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006964780
SN - 1356-5524
VL - 22
SP - 20
EP - 22
JO - Evidence-Based Medicine
JF - Evidence-Based Medicine
IS - 1
ER -