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	National Guideline Clearinghouse™ Annotated Bibliographies

• General

  • Raine R, Sanderson C, Black N. Developing clinical guidelines: a challenge to current methods. BMJ 2005;331:631-3

  • Brouwers MC, Johnston ME, Charette ML, et al. Evaluating the role of quality assessment of primary studies in systematic reviews of cancer practice guidelines. BMC Med Res Methodol 2005;5:8

  • Raine R, Sanderson C, Hutchings A, et al. An experimental study of determinants of group judgments in clinical guideline development. Lancet 2004;364:429-37

    • Burgers JS, van Everdingen JJ. Beyond the evidence in clinical guidelines. Lancet 2004;364:392-3

  • Michie S, Johnston M. Changing clinical behaviour by making guidelines specific. BMJ 2004;328:343-5

  • Giannakakis IA, et al. Citation of randomised evidence in support of guidelines of therapeutic and preventive interventions. J Clin Epidemiol 2002 55: 545-555

    • Evidence-based guidelines? Bandolier 2002

• Levels of Evidence and Strenght of Recommendations

• GRADE Working Group

  • Atkins D, Briss PA, Eccles M, et al. GRADE Working Group. Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system. BMC Health Serv Res 2005;5:25

  • Atkins D, Eccles M, Flottorp S, et al. GRADE Working Group. Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: Critical appraisal of existing approaches. BMC Health Serv Res 2004;4:38

  • The GRADE Working Group. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. BMJ 2004;328:1490-1494

  • Schunemann HJ, Best D, Vist G, Oxman AD; GRADE Working Group Letters, numbers, symbols and words: how to communicate grades of evidence and recommendations. CMAJ 2003;169:677-80

• Grading systems

  • Guyatt G, Schunemann HJ, Cook D, et al. Applying the grades of recommendation for antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy: the Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy. Chest 2004;126(3 Suppl):179S-187S

  • Ebell MH, Siwek J, Weiss BD, et al. Strength of recommendation taxonomy (SORT): a patient-centered approach to grading evidence in the medical literature. Am Fam Physician 2004;69:548-56  and J Am Board Fam Pract 2004;17:59-67

  • Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, March 2002

  • Harbour R, Miller J. A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines. BMJ 2001;323:334-336

  • Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation. Centre for Evidence-based Medicine

• Miscellanea

  • Upshur RE. Are all evidence-based practices alike? Problems in the ranking of evidence. CMAJ 2003;169:672-3

  • Glasziou P, Vandenbroucke J, Chalmers I. Assessing the quality of research. BMJ 2004;328:39-41

• See also Monographs

• General

  • Watine J, Friedberg B, Nagy E, et al. Conflict between guideline methodologic quality and recommendation validity: a potential problem for practitioners. Clin Chem 2006;52:65-72

    • Burgers JS. Guideline quality and guideline content: are they related?  Clin Chem 2006;52:3-4

  • Vlayen J, Aertgeerts B, Hannes K, et al. A systematic review of appraisal tools for clinical practice guidelines: multiple similarities and one common deficit. Int J Qual Health Care 2005;17:235-42

  • Jackson R, Feder G. Guidelines for clinical guidelines. BMJ 1998;317:427-428

• AGREE instrument

  • Burgers JS, Fervers B, Haugh M, et al. International assessment of the quality of clinical practice guidelines in oncology using the Appraisal of Guidelines and Research and Evaluation Instrument. J Clin Oncol 2004;22:2000-7

  • AGREE Collaboration. Development and validation of an international appraisal instrument for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines: the AGREE project. Qual Saf Health Care 2003;12:18-23

  • Burgers JS, Cluzeau FA, Hanna SE, et al. Characteristics of high-quality guidelines: evaluation of 86 clinical guidelines developed in ten European countries and Canada. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 2003;19:148-57 [abstract]

  • Burgers JS, Grol R, Klazinga NS, et al. for The AGREE Collaboration. Towards evidence-based clinical practice: an international survey of 18 clinical guideline programmes. Int J Qual Health Care 2003;15:31-45

  • Harpole LH, Kelley MJ, Schreiber G, et al. Assessment of the scope and quality of clinical practice guidelines in lung cancer. Chest 2003;123(1Suppl): 7S-20S

  • Burgers JS, Bailey JV, Klazinga NS, et al for the AGREE Collaboration. Inside guidelines: comparative analysis of recommendations and evidence in diabetes guidelines from 13 countries. Diab Care 2002;25:1933-1939 

  • Cranney A, Waldegger L, Graham ID, et al. Systematic assessment of the quality of osteoporosis guidelines BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2002;3:20

• Other instrument

  • Standardized Reporting of Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Proposal from the Conference on Guideline Standardization. Ann Intern Med 2003;139:493-8

  • Cruse H, Winiarek M, Marshburn J, et al. Quality and methods of developing practice guidelines. BMC Health Serv Res 2002;2:1

  • Graham ID, Beardall S, Carter AO, et al. What is the quality of drug therapy clinical practice guidelines in Canada? CMAJ 2001;165:157-63

    • Lewis SJ. Further disquiet on the guidelines front [editorial]. CMAJ 2001;165:180-1

  • Lacasse Y, Ferreira I, Brooks D, Newman T, Goldstein RS. Critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines targeting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Arch Intern Med 2001;161:69-74

  • Grilli R, Magrini N, Penna A, Mura G, Liberati A. Practice guidelines developed by specialty societies: the need for a critical appraisal. Lancet 2000;355:103-6.

  • Miller J, Petrie J. Development of practice guidelines [editorial]. Lancet 2000;355:82-3

  • Shaneyfelt TM, Mayo-Smith MF, Rothwangl J. Are guidelines following guidelines? The methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines in the peer-reviewed medical literature. JAMA 1999;281:1900-5

  • Cook D, Giacomini M. The trials and tribulations of clinical practice guidelines [editorial]. JAMA 1999;281:1950-1

• Shekelle PG, Ortiz E, Rhodes S, et al. Validity of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Practice Guidelines. How Quickly Do Guidelines Become Outdated? JAMA 2001;286:1461-7

• Current Validity of AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines. Technical Review Number. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville: September 2002

• Browman GP. Development and Aftercare of Clinical Guidelines. The Balance Between Rigor and Pragmatism. JAMA 2001;286:1461-7

• Shekelle P, Eccles MP, Grimshaw JM, et al. When should clinical guidelines be updated? BMJ 2001;323:155-7

• Grimshaw JM, Thomas RE, MacLennan G, et al. Effectiveness and efficiency of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies. Health Technol Assess. 2004;8:1-72.

• Farquhar CM, Kofa EW, Slutsky JR. Clinicians' attitudes to clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review. Med J Aus 2002;177:502-6

• Jankowsky RF. Implementing national guidelines at local level. BMJ 2001;322:1258-9

• Cabana MD, Rand CS, Powe NR, et al. Why don't physicians follow clinical practice guidelines? JAMA 1999;282:1458-65

• Bero LA, Grilli R, Grimshaw JM, et al. Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings BMJ 1998;317:465-468.

• Grol R. Beliefs and evidence in changing clinical practice. BMJ 1997;315:418-21 

• Davis DA, Anne Taylor-Vaisey. Translating guidelines into practice. A systematic review of theoretic concepts, practical experience and research evidence in the adoption of clinical, practice guidelines. Can Med Assoc J 1997;157:408-416

  • Translating guidelines into practice. Bandolier

• Centre for Review and Dissemination. Getting research into practice. Effective Health Care 1999;5:n°1

• Worrall G, Chaulk P, Freake D. The effects of clinical practice guidelines on patient outcomes in primary care: a systematic review. CMAJ 1997;156:1705-12

• Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group

• Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Handbook for Practitioners. Canadian Medical Association, 1995

• Pay for performance

  • Pay-for-Performance Research: How to Learn What Clinicians and Policy Makers Need to Know

• Hurwitz B. How does evidence based guidance influence determinations of medical negligence? BMJ 2004;329:1024-8

• Samanta A, Samanta J, Gunn M. Legal considerations of clinical guidelines: will NICE make a difference? J R Soc Med 2003;96:133-8

• Hurwitz B, Eccles M. Legal, political and emotional considerations of clinical practice guidelines. BMJ 1999;318:661-4

• Schwartz PJ, Breithardt G, Howard AJ, et al. Task Force Report: The legal implications of medical guidelines. A Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology. Eur Heart J 1999;20:1152-7

• Dwyer P. Legal implications of clinical practice guidelines. Med J Aust 1998;169:292-3 

• Pelly JE, Newby L, Tito F, et al. Clinical practice guidelines before the law: sword or shield? Med J Aust 1998;169:330-333

• Hyams A, Brandenburg B, Lipsitz S, et al. Practice guidelines and malpractice legislation: a two way street. Ann Intern Med 1995;122:450-455 [abstract]

• Hurwitz B. Clinical guidelines and the law. BMJ 1995;311:1517-1518

• Hurwitz B. Clinical guidelines and the law: advice, guidance or regulation? J Eval Clin Pract 1995;1:49-60 [abstract]

• Clinical practice guidelines and conflict of interest. CMAJ 2005;173:1297-9.

• Van Der Weyden MB. Clinical practice guidelines: time to move the debate from the how to the who. Med J Aust 2002;176: 304-305

• Lenzer J, Warlow C, Saver JL, Kidwell CS, Starkman S. Alteplase for stroke: money and optimistic claims buttress the "brain attack" campaign • Commentary: Who pays the guideline writers? • Commentary: Thrombolysis in stroke: it works!  BMJ 2002;324:723-729

• Choudhry NK, Stelfox HT, Detsky AS. Relationships between authors of clinical practice guidelines and the pharmaceutical industry. JAMA 2002;287:612-7

• Papanikolaou GN, Baltogianni MS, Contopoulos-Ioannidis DG, et al. Reporting of conflicts of interest in guidelines of preventive and therapeutic interventions. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2001;1:3

• CPG and Comorbidities

  • Boyd CM, Darer J, Boult C, et al. Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance. JAMA. 2005;294:716-724.

    • O'Connor PJ. Adding value to evidence-based clinical guidelines. JAMA 2005;294:741-3

  • Tinetti ME, Bogardus ST Jr, Agostini JV. Potential pitfalls of disease-specific guidelines for patients with multiple conditions. N Engl J Med. 2004;351:2870-2874

• Peverill RE. Hypertension guidelines, meta-analyses and clinical trials: do we assume too much? Med J Aust 2005;182:82-4

• Eccles M, McColl E, Steen N, et al. Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines on management of asthma and angina in adults in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2002;325:941.

• Pilote L, Tager IB. Outcomes research in the development and evaluation of practice guidelines. BMC Health Serv Res 2002;2:7

• Mehta RH, Montoye CK, Gallogly M, et al. Improving quality of care for acute myocardial infarction: The Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) Initiative. JAMA 2002;287:1269-76.

  • Rich MW. From clinical trials to clinical practice: bridging the GAP. JAMA 2002;287:1321-3.

• Hirst GHL, Ward JE. Clinical practice guidelines: reality bites. MJA 2000; 172: 287-291

• Formoso G, Magrini N, Liberati A. Practice Guidelines. Useful and Participative Method. Arch Intern Med 2001;161:2037-42

• Gundersen L. The effect of clinical practice guidelines on variations in care. Ann Intern Med 2000;133:317-8

• Psaty BM, Furberg CD, Pahor M, Alderman M, Kuller LH. National guidelines, clinical trials, and quality of evidence. Arch Intern Med 2000;160:2577-80

• Grant J, Cottrell R, Cluzeau F, Fawcett G. Evaluating "payback" on biomedical research from papers cited in clinical guidelines: applied bibliometric study. BMJ 2000;320:1107-11.

• Haycox A, Bagust A, Walley T. Clinical guidelines. The hidden costs. BMJ 1999;318:391-393

• Sackett D. Guidelines and killer B's. ACP J Club 1999;131(1):A13-4

• Stross JK. Guidelines have their limits. Ann Intern Med 1999;131:304-6.

• Weingarten S. Using practice guideline compendiums to provide better preventive care. Ann Intern Med 1999;130:454-8.

• Granata AV, Hillman AL. Competing practice guidelines: using cost-effectiveness analysis to make optimal decisions. Ann Intern Med. 1998;128:56-63.

• Thomson R, et al. Guidelines on anticoagulant treatment for atrial fibrillation in Great Britain: variation in content and implications for treatment. BMJ 1998;316:509-513

  • Variability of AF guidelines. Bandolier

• Hornberger J, Wrone E. When to base clinical policies on observational versus randomized trial data. Ann Intern Med 1997;127(8 Pt 2):697-703.

• Cook DJ, Greengold NL, Ellrodt AG, SR Weingarten. The Relation between Systematic Reviews and Practice Guidelines. Ann Intern Med 1997;127:210-216

• Hayward RSA, Guyatt GH, Moore KA, et al. Canadian physicians' attitudes about and preferences regarding clinical practice guidelines CMAJ 1997;156:1715-1723

• Hayward RSA. Clinical practice guidelines on trial. CMAJ 1997;156:1725-1727

• Berg AO, Atkins D, Tierney W. Clinical practice guidelines in practice and education. J Gen Intern Med 1997;12(Suppl 2):S25-33

• Hayward RS, Wilson MC, Tunis SR, Bass EB, Rubin HR, Haynes RB. More informative abstracts of articles describing clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med 1993;118:731-7. [abstract]