AGREE-II Appraisal of a clinical algorithm for hypotonia assessment
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Appraising a tool for guideline appraisal (the AGREE II instrument).
The AGREE II instrument has 3 goals e to assess the quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), to provide a methodologic strategy for the development of guidelines, and to recommend how and what information should be reported in guidelines. Of these, the main purpose seems to be to assess guideline quality (i.e., ‘‘confidence that the potential biases of guideline development have been add...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Health Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1680-6905
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v18i3.38