Evidence to Decision framework provides a structured “roadmap” for making GRADE guidelines recommendations

It is unclear how guidelines panelists discuss and consider factors (criteria) that are formally and not formally included in the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. To describe the use of decision criteria, we explored how panelists adhered to GRADE criteria and sought to identify any emerging non-GRADE criteria when the panelists used the Evidence to Decision (EtD) framework as part of GRADE application.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - September 22, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Shelly-Anne Li, Paul E. Alexander, Tea Reljic, Adam Cuker, Robby Nieuwlaat, Wojtek Wiercioch, Gordon Guyatt, Holger J. Sch ünemann, Benjamin Djulbegovic Tags: Original Article Source Type: research