TY - JOUR
T1 - Methods for living guidelines
T2 - early guidance based on practical experience. Paper 1: Introduction
AU - Cheyne, Saskia
AU - Fraile Navarro, David
AU - Hill, Kelvin
AU - McDonald, Steve
AU - Tunnicliffe, David
AU - White, Heath
AU - Whittle, Samuel
AU - Karpusheff, Justine
AU - Mustafa, Reem
AU - Morgan, Rebecca L.
AU - Sultan, Shahnaz
AU - Turner, Tari
AU - Australian Living Evidence Consortium Methods and Processes Working Group and Collaborators
N1 - Copyright the Author(s) 2023. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Objectives: To introduce methods for living guidelines based on practical experiences by the Australian Living Evidence Consortium (ALEC), the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), with methodological support from the US Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) Network. Study Design and Setting: Members of ALEC, NICE, and the US GRADE Network, convened a working group to share experiences of the methods used to develop living guidelines and outline the key differences between traditional and living guidelines methods. Results: The guidance includes the following steps: 1) deciding if the guideline is a priority for a living approach, 2) preparing for living guideline development, 3) literature surveillance and frequency of searching, 4) assessment and synthesis of the evidence, 5) publication and dissemination, and 6) transitioning recommendations out of living mode. Conclusion: This paper introduces methods for living guidelines and provides examples of the similarities and differences in approach across multiple organizations conducting living guidelines. It also introduces a series of papers exploring methods for living guidelines based on our practical experiences, including consumer involvement, selecting and prioritizing questions, search decisions, and methods decisions.
AB - Objectives: To introduce methods for living guidelines based on practical experiences by the Australian Living Evidence Consortium (ALEC), the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), with methodological support from the US Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) Network. Study Design and Setting: Members of ALEC, NICE, and the US GRADE Network, convened a working group to share experiences of the methods used to develop living guidelines and outline the key differences between traditional and living guidelines methods. Results: The guidance includes the following steps: 1) deciding if the guideline is a priority for a living approach, 2) preparing for living guideline development, 3) literature surveillance and frequency of searching, 4) assessment and synthesis of the evidence, 5) publication and dissemination, and 6) transitioning recommendations out of living mode. Conclusion: This paper introduces methods for living guidelines and provides examples of the similarities and differences in approach across multiple organizations conducting living guidelines. It also introduces a series of papers exploring methods for living guidelines based on our practical experiences, including consumer involvement, selecting and prioritizing questions, search decisions, and methods decisions.
KW - Clinical practice guidelines
KW - COVID-19
KW - Decision-making
KW - Guidelines
KW - Living evidence
KW - Methods
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.12.024
DO - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.12.024
M3 - Article
C2 - 36639038
AN - SCOPUS:85149863643
SN - 0895-4356
VL - 155
SP - 84
EP - 96
JO - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
ER -