A few panel members dominated guideline development meeting disucssions: A social network analysis

Objectives: To identify patterns of interactions that may influence guideline panels ’ decision-making.Study Design and Setting: Social network analysis (SNA) to describe the conversation network in a guideline development meeting in United States.Results: We analyzed one two-day guideline panel meeting that included 20 members who developed a guideline using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. The conversation pattern of the guideline panel indicated a well-connected network (density=0.59, clustering coefficient=0.82).

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - September 20, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Shelly-Anne Li, Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, Gordon Guyatt, Gaurav Talwar, Qi Wang, Ying Zhu, Iztok Hozo, Benjamin Djulbegovic Source Type: research