GRADE Guidelines: 19. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences —Risk of bias and indirectness

The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) working group defines patient values and preferences as the relative importance patients place on the main health outcomes. We provide GRADE guidance for assessing the risk of bias and indirectness domains for certainty of evidence about the relative importance of outcomes.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - February 13, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Yuan Zhang, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Gordon H. Guyatt, Juan Jos é Yepes-Nuñez, Elie A. Akl, Glen Hazlewood, Hector Pardo-Hernandez, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Amir Qaseem, John W. Williams, Peter Tugwell, Signe Flottorp, Yaping Chang, Yuqing Zhang, Reem Tags: Original Article Source Type: research