Do clinicians want recommendations? A multi-center study comparing evidence summaries with and without GRADE recommendations

Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines provide recommendations to assist clinicians in decision-making and to reduce the gap between best current research evidence and clinical practice. However, some argue that providing pre-appraised evidence summaries alone, rather than recommendations, is more appropriate.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - March 9, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ignacio Neumann, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Per Olav Vandvik, Thomas Agoritsas, Gemma Mas, Elie A. Akl, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Jose Emparanza, Lauren McCullagh, Catherine De Sitio, Thomas McGinn, Hind Almodaimegh, Khalid Almodaimegh, Solange Rivera, Luis Source Type: research