OBJECTIVES We conducted a comparative review of clinical practice guideline development handbooks. We aimed to identify the main guideline development tasks, assign weights to the importance of each task using expert opinions and identify the handbooks that provided a comprehensive coverage of the tasks. METHODS We systematically searched and included handbooks published (in English language)...

OVERVIEW OF PROCESS The development process for the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease included the following steps: K Appointing Work Group members and the ERT. K Discussing process, methods, and results. K Developing and refining topics. K Identifying populations, interventions or predictors, and outcomes of interest. K Selecting t...

OVERVIEW OF PROCESS The development of the guideline included sequential and concurrent steps: K Appoint the Work Group and Evidence Review Team (ERT), which were responsible for different aspects of the process. K Confer to discuss process, methods, and results. K Develop and refine topics. K Assign topics to systematic review or narrative review. K Define specific populations, interventions o...

AIM The overall aim of this project was to develop an evidencebased clinical practice guideline for evaluation and management of CKD. The guideline consists of recommendation statements, rationales, and a summary of systematically generated evidence on relevant pre-defined clinical topics. To a large extent the guideline builds on the output of the KDIGO Controversies Conference in 2009, which ...

OBJECTIVES Due to the non-commercial, research-oriented context, software in medical informatics research projects is often developed by researchers as a proof-of-concept without applying structured software development process models. A guideline for software development can bring sufficient structure to the development process while avoiding the complexity of industry-standard methods. METH...

METHODOLOGY Methodology This update builds on the original IDF Guideline for the Management of PostMeal Glucose published in 2007. The methodology used in the development of this guideline is not described in detail here, as it broadly follows the principles described in the IDF Guide for Guidelines (www.idf.org). In summary: • The update was overseen by a Guideline Development Group of clinici...

antibiotic guidelines have proven to be a simple and effective intervention to guide the choice of appropriate empiric antibiotic regimens. the goals of this study were to evaluate adherence to guidelines and streamlining of antibiotics. hospital records of hospitalized patients in infectious diseases ward imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran, from may 2008 to september 2009 were reviewed. adhe...

BACKGROUND In the last decade, guideline organizations faced a number of problems, including a lack of standardization in guideline development methods and suboptimal guideline implementation. To contribute to the solution of these problems, we produced a toolbox for guideline development, implementation, revision, and evaluation. METHODS All relevant guideline organizations in the Netherland...