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Evans-Gilbert T, Blades E, Boodoosingh R, Campbell MH, Christie CDC, Manzanero M, Mullings-George J, Ottley E, Outerbridge CM, Sobers NP, Davidson T, Extavour RM, St John J, Reveiz L, Sagastuy B, Neumann I. Adaptation of WHO COVID-19 guidelines by Caribbean countries and territories. Bull World Health Organ 2024; 102:699-706. [PMID: 39318885 PMCID: PMC11418840 DOI: 10.2471/blt.23.290796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024] Open
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The normative role of the World Health Organization (WHO) involves creating evidence-based, principled guidelines to guide its Member States in making well-informed public health decisions. While these guidelines often need to be adapted to ensure contextual relevance, foster better implementation and adherence, adapting existing guidelines is more efficient than creating new ones. Here we describe the adaptation of the WHO coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) living guideline on pharmacological interventions for the Caribbean using the grading of recommendations, assessment, development and evaluation (GRADE)-ADOLOPMENT method. The Caribbean Public Health Agency and the Pan American Health Organization led the effort, assembling a diverse panel of 16 experts from seven Caribbean countries and territories. The adaptation process, involving 15 steps, was guided by an experienced methodologist and included selecting relevant clinical questions and prioritizing them based on regional needs. The panel evaluated the latest WHO guidelines and integrated additional local data. They adjusted the direction and strength of several recommendations to better fit the Caribbean context, considering local values and preferences, resources, accessibility, feasibility and impact on health equity. Ultimately, we changed the direction of two recommendations and the strength of five, tailoring them to regional realities. This effort highlights the importance of adapting global guidelines to local settings, improving their applicability and effectiveness. The adaptation process also serves as a valuable opportunity for skill transfer and capacity-building in guideline development. Continued research is needed to assess the impact of these adaptations on health-care outcomes in the Caribbean.
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- North-Central Regional Health Authority, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Pan American Health Organization, WashingtonDC, United States of America
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- Pan American Health Organization, WashingtonDC, United States of America
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- School of Medicine, Universidad San Sebastian, Lota 2465, Providencia, Santiago7510157, Chile
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Freitas de Mello N, Nascimento Silva S, Gomes DF, da Motta Girardi J, Barreto JOM. Models and frameworks for assessing the implementation of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review. Implement Sci 2024; 19:59. [PMID: 39113109 PMCID: PMC11305041 DOI: 10.1186/s13012-024-01389-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 08/01/2024] [Indexed: 08/11/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is a cyclical process in which the evaluation stage can facilitate continuous improvement. Implementation science has utilized theoretical approaches, such as models and frameworks, to understand and address this process. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the models and frameworks used to assess the implementation of CPGs. METHODS A systematic review was conducted following the Cochrane methodology, with adaptations to the "selection process" due to the unique nature of this review. The findings were reported following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) reporting guidelines. Electronic databases were searched from their inception until May 15, 2023. A predetermined strategy and manual searches were conducted to identify relevant documents from health institutions worldwide. Eligible studies presented models and frameworks for assessing the implementation of CPGs. Information on the characteristics of the documents, the context in which the models were used (specific objectives, level of use, type of health service, target group), and the characteristics of each model or framework (name, domain evaluated, and model limitations) were extracted. The domains of the models were analyzed according to the key constructs: strategies, context, outcomes, fidelity, adaptation, sustainability, process, and intervention. A subgroup analysis was performed grouping models and frameworks according to their levels of use (clinical, organizational, and policy) and type of health service (community, ambulatorial, hospital, institutional). The JBI's critical appraisal tools were utilized by two independent researchers to assess the trustworthiness, relevance, and results of the included studies. RESULTS Database searches yielded 14,395 studies, of which 80 full texts were reviewed. Eight studies were included in the data analysis and four methodological guidelines were additionally included from the manual search. The risk of bias in the studies was considered non-critical for the results of this systematic review. A total of ten models/frameworks for assessing the implementation of CPGs were found. The level of use was mainly policy, the most common type of health service was institutional, and the major target group was professionals directly involved in clinical practice. The evaluated domains differed between the models and there were also differences in their conceptualization. All the models addressed the domain "Context", especially at the micro level (8/12), followed by the multilevel (7/12). The domains "Outcome" (9/12), "Intervention" (8/12), "Strategies" (7/12), and "Process" (5/12) were frequently addressed, while "Sustainability" was found only in one study, and "Fidelity/Adaptation" was not observed. CONCLUSIONS The use of models and frameworks for assessing the implementation of CPGs is still incipient. This systematic review may help stakeholders choose or adapt the most appropriate model or framework to assess CPGs implementation based on their specific health context. TRIAL REGISTRATION PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) registration number: CRD42022335884. Registered on June 7, 2022.
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- Nicole Freitas de Mello
- Department of Management and Incorporation of Health Technologies, Ministry of Health of Brazil, Brasília, Federal District, 70058-900, Brazil.
- Postgraduate Program in Public Health, FS, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Federal District, 70910-900, Brazil.
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- René Rachou Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30190-002, Brazil
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- Department of Management and Incorporation of Health Technologies, Ministry of Health of Brazil, Brasília, Federal District, 70058-900, Brazil
- Postgraduate Program in Public Health, FS, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Federal District, 70910-900, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Public Health, FS, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Federal District, 70910-900, Brazil
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Brasília, Brasília, Federal District, 70904-130, Brazil
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Klugar M, Lotfi T, Darzi AJ, Reinap M, Klugarová J, Kantorová L, Xia J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Pokorná A, Hazlewood G, Munn Z, Morgan RL, Toews I, Neumann I, Bhatarasakoon P, Stein AT, McCaul M, Mathioudakis AG, D'Anci KE, Leontiadis GI, Naude C, Vasanthan LT, Khabsa J, Bala MM, Mustafa R, DiValerio Gibbs K, Nieuwlaat R, Santesso N, Pieper D, Mokrane S, Soghier I, Lertwatthanawilat W, Wiercioch W, Sultan S, Rozmarinová J, Drapačová P, Song Y, Amer M, Amer YS, Sayfi S, Verstijnen IM, Shin ES, Saz-Parkinson Z, Pottie K, Ruspi A, Marušić A, Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Rojas MX, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidance 39: using GRADE-ADOLOPMENT to adopt, adapt or create contextualized recommendations from source guidelines and evidence syntheses. J Clin Epidemiol 2024; 174:111494. [PMID: 39117011 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2024] [Accepted: 07/31/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE)-ADOLOPMENT methodology has been widely used to adopt, adapt, or de novo develop recommendations from existing or new guideline and evidence synthesis efforts. The objective of this guidance is to refine the operationalization for applying GRADE-ADOLOPMENT. METHODS Through iterative discussions, online meetings, and email communications, the GRADE-ADOLOPMENT project group drafted the updated guidance. We then conducted a review of handbooks of guideline-producing organizations, and a scoping review of published and planned adolopment guideline projects. The lead authors refined the existing approach based on the scoping review findings and feedback from members of the GRADE working group. We presented the revised approach to the group in November 2022 (approximately 115 people), in May 2023 (approximately 100 people), and twice in September 2023 (approximately 60 and 90 people) for approval. RESULTS This GRADE guidance shows how to effectively and efficiently contextualize recommendations using the GRADE-ADOLOPMENT approach by doing the following: (1) showcasing alternative pathways for starting an adolopment effort; (2) elaborating on the different essential steps of this approach, such as building on existing evidence-to-decision (EtDs), when available or developing new EtDs, if necessary; and (3) providing examples from adolopment case studies to facilitate the application of the approach. We demonstrate how to use contextual evidence to make judgments about EtD criteria, and highlight the importance of making the resulting EtDs available to facilitate adolopment efforts by others. CONCLUSION This updated GRADE guidance further operationalizes the application of GRADE-ADOLOPMENT based on over 6 years of experience. It serves to support uptake and application by end users interested in contextualizing recommendations to a local setting or specific reality in a short period of time or with limited resources.
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- Miloslav Klugar
- Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; Center of Evidence-based Education and Arts Therapies: A JBI Affiliated Group, Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Prague, Czech Republic
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; Center of Evidence-based Education and Arts Therapies: A JBI Affiliated Group, Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Agency for Clinical Practice Guideline, Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, Seoul, South Korea; Division of Lifespan and Population Health, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact, School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA
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- Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada; School of Medicine, Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago, Chile
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- Thailand Center for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Public Health, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (Ufcspa), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch Univeristy, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; North West Lung Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch Univeristy, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
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- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland; Krakow GRADE Centre, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School (Theodor Fontane), Institute for Health Services and Health System Research, Rüdersdorf, Germany; Center for Health Services Research, Brandenburg Medical School (Theodor Fontane), Rüdersdorf, Germany
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- Department of Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Working group Development of Primary Care Guidelines, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Brigham/Salem Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Thailand Center for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Biomedical Research, Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical/Critical Pharmacy Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pediatrics Department, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Research Chair for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada
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- Research and Development, National Health Care Institute, Zorginstituut, The Netherlands
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
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- Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Clinical Epidemiology and Research Center (CERC), Humanitas University & Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4 - 20090 Pieve Emanuele, Milano, Italy; Physiotherapy Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center - IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
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- Center for Evidence-based Medicine, Medicinski fakultet Sveucilista u Splitu, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
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- College of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, University Galway, Galway, Ireland; Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, The Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4L8, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology and Research Center (CERC), Humanitas University & Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4 - 20090 Pieve Emanuele, Milano, Italy; Nottingham Ningbo GRADE Centre, School of Economics, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China; China European Research Executive Agency, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
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Lo M, Pigeau C, Smith E, Pach B, Faulkner A, Sachdeva H, Hopkins J, Motilall A, Lotfi T, Schünemann H, Piggott T. Barriers and opportunities faced by public health practitioners in using public health guidance on COVID-19: a knowledge translation exercise for the eCOVID-19 RecMap. J Clin Epidemiol 2024; 172:111410. [PMID: 38844116 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Revised: 05/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the scientific community to collaborate in an unprecedented way, with the rapid and urgent generation and translation of new knowledge about the disease and its causative agent. Iteratively, and at different levels of government and globally, population-level guidance was created and updated, resulting in the need for a living catalog of guidelines, the eCOVID-19 Recommendations Map and Gateway to Contextualization (RecMap). This article focuses on the approach that was used to analyze barriers and opportunities associated with using the RecMap in public health in Canada. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A mixed qualitative and quantitative approach data were used to inform this knowledge mobilization project and inform feedback on implementation of the eCOVID-19 RecMap. This approach involved surveying 110 attendees from a public health webinar. Following this webinar, an evidence brief and series of case studies were created and disseminated to 24 Canadian public health practitioners who attended a virtual workshop. This workshop identified barriers and opportunities to improve RecMap use. RESULTS This study helped to shed light on the needs that public health practitioners have when finding, using, and disseminating public health guidelines. Through the workshop that was conducted, opportunities for public health guidelines can be categorized into 4 categories: 1) information access, 2) awareness, 3) public health development, and 4) usability. Barriers that were identified can also be categorized into 4 categories: 1) usability, 2) information maintenance, 3) public health guidance, 4) awareness. CONCLUSION This work will help to inform the development and organization of future public health guidelines, and the needs that public health practitioners have when engaging with them.
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- Margret Lo
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Peterborough Public Health, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Peterborough Public Health, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Peterborough Public Health, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Population Health Assessment, Surveillance & Evaluation Program, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Communicable Disease Control, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Peterborough Public Health, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Kirsh S, Ling M, Jassal T, Pitre T, Pigott T, Zeraatkar D. Values and preferences in COVID-19 public health guidelines: a systematic review. J Clin Epidemiol 2024; 174:111473. [PMID: 39034014 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2024] [Revised: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND Internationally accepted standards for trustworthy guidelines include the necessity to ground recommendations in values and preferences. Considering values and preferences respects the rights of citizens to participate in health decision-making and ensures that guidelines align with the needs and priorities of the communities they are intended to serve. Early anecdotal reports suggest that COVID-19 public health guidelines did not consider values and preferences. To capture and characterize whether and how COVID-19 public health guidelines considered values and preferences. METHODS We performed a systematic review of COVID-19 public health guidelines. We searched the eCOVID-19 RecMap platform-a comprehensive international catalog of COVID-19 guidelines-up to July 2023 and the Guidelines International Network Library-an international library of guidelines published or endorsed by Guidelines International Network member organizations-up to May 2024. We included guidelines that made recommendations addressing vaccination, masking, isolation, lockdowns, travel restrictions, contact tracing, infection surveillance, and school closures. Reviewers worked independently and in duplicate to review guidelines for consideration of values and preferences. RESULTS Our search yielded 130 eligible guidelines, of which 41 (31.5%) were published by national organizations, 70 (53.8%) by international organizations, and 19 (14.6%) by professional societies and associations. Twenty-eight (21.5%) guidelines considered values and preferences. Among guidelines that considered values and preferences, most did so to assess the acceptability of recommendations (23; 82.1%) and by referencing published research (25; 89.3%). Guidelines only occasionally engaged laypersons as part of the guideline development group (8; 28.6%). None of the guidelines performed systematic reviews of the literature addressing values and preferences. CONCLUSION Most COVID-19 public health guidelines did not consider values and preferences. When they were considered, it was often suboptimal. Disregard for values and preferences might have partly contributed to divisive and unpopular COVID-19 policies. Given the possibility of future health emergencies, we recommend guideline developers identify efficient and effective methods for considering values and preferences in crisis situations.
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- Sarah Kirsh
- Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Ye Z, Lai H, Ning J, Liu J, Huang J, Yang S, Jin J, Liu Y, Liu J, Zhao H, Ge L. Traditional Chinese medicine for insomnia: Recommendation mapping of the global clinical guidelines. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2024; 322:117601. [PMID: 38122913 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2023.117601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a rich repository of empirically-developed traditional medicines. The findings call for more rigorous study into the efficacy, safety, and mechanisms of action of TCM remedies to strengthen the evidence base. AIM OF THE STUDY To systematically review the quality of insomnia clinical practice guidelines that involve TCM recommendations and to summarize the certainty of evidence supporting the recommendations, strength, and consistency of recommendations, providing valuable research references for the development of future insomnia guidelines. MATERIALS AND METHODS We systematically searched PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, CNKI, Wanfang, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Sleep Research Society, Medsci, Medlive, British National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and the International Guidelines Collaboration Network (GIN) for clinical practice guidelines on insomnia from inception to March 5, 2023. Four evaluators conducted independent assessments of the quality of the guidelines by employing the AGREE II tool. Subsequently, the guideline recommendations were consolidated and presented as evidence maps. RESULTS Thirteen clinical practice guidelines addressing insomnia, encompassing 211 recommendations (consisting of 127 evidence-based and 84 expert consensus recommendations), were deemed eligible for inclusion in our analysis. The evaluation results revealed an overall suboptimal quality, with the "scope and purpose" domain achieving the highest score (58.1%), while the "applicability" domain garnered the lowest score (13.0%). Specifically, it was observed that 74.8% (n = 95) of the evidence-based recommendations were supported by evidence of either very low or low certainty, in contrast to the expert consensus recommendations, which accounted for 61.9% (n = 52). We subsequently synthesized 44 recommendations into four evidence maps, focusing on proprietary Chinese medicines, Chinese medicine prescriptions, acupuncture, and massage, respectively. Notably, Chinese herbal remedies and acupuncture exhibited robust support, substantiated by high-certainty evidence, exemplified by interventions such as Xuefu Zhuyu decoction, spleen decoction, body acupuncture, and ear acupuncture, resulting in solid recommendations. Conversely, proprietary Chinese medicines needed more high-certainty evidence, predominantly yielding weak recommendations. As for other therapies, the level of certainty was predominantly categorized as low or very low. Recommendations about magnetic therapy, bathing, and fumigation relied primarily on expert consensus, needing more substantive clinical research evidence, consequently forming weak recommendations. Hot ironing and acupoint injection recommendations were weakly endorsed, primarily based on observational studies. Furthermore, interventions like qigong, gua sha, and moxibustion displayed a relatively limited number of clinical studies, necessitating further exploration to ascertain their efficacy. CONCLUSIONS Our analysis revealed a need for substantial improvement in the quality of all the included guidelines related to insomnia. Notably, recommendations for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatments predominantly rely on low-certainty evidence. This study represents a pioneering effort in the utilization of recommendation mapping to both present and identify existing gaps in the evidence landscape within TCM therapies, thus setting the stage for future research initiatives. The evidence supporting TCM therapy recommendations must be fortified to achieve a more substantial level of recommendation and higher certainty. Consequently, there exists a critical and pressing demand for high-quality clinical investigations dedicated to TCM, with a specific focus on ascertaining its long-term efficacy, safety, and potential side effects in the context of insomnia treatment. These endeavors are poised to establish a robust scientific foundation to inform the development of TCM therapy recommendations within the insomnia guidelines.
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- Ziying Ye
- Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Institute of Basic Research of Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; China Center for Evidence Based Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Research of Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; China Center for Evidence Based Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
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- Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Evidence Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China; World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation, Lanzhou, China.
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Cyrkot S, Hartling L, Scott SD, Elliott SA. Parents' User Experience Accessing and Using a Web-Based Map of COVID-19 Recommendations for Health Decision-Making: Qualitative Descriptive Study. JMIR Form Res 2024; 8:e53593. [PMID: 38506915 PMCID: PMC10956570 DOI: 10.2196/53593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The eCOVID19 Recommendations Map & Gateway to Contextualization (RecMap) website was developed to identify all COVID-19 guidelines, assess the credibility and trustworthiness of the guidelines, and make recommendations understandable to various stakeholder groups. To date, little has been done to understand and explore parents' experiences when accessing and using the RecMap website for COVID-19 health decision-making. OBJECTIVE To explore (1) where parents look for COVID-19 health information and why, (2) parents' user experience when accessing and using the RecMap website to make health decisions, and (3) what knowledge mobilization activities are needed to increase parents' awareness, use, and engagement with the RecMap website. METHODS We conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews and a think-aloud activity with parents of children aged 18 years or younger living in Canada. Participants were asked to provide feedback on the RecMap website and to "think aloud" as they navigated the website to find relevant COVID-19 health recommendations. Demographic information was collected using a web-based questionnaire. A hybrid deductive and inductive thematic approach guided analysis and data synthesis. RESULTS A total of 21 participants (13/21, 62% mothers) were interviewed and participated in a think-aloud activity. The data were categorized into four sections, representative of key elements that deductively and inductively emerged from the data: (1) parent information seeking behaviors and preferences for COVID-19, (2) RecMap website usability, (3) perceived usefulness of the RecMap website, and (4) knowledge mobilization strategies to increase awareness, use, and engagement of the RecMap website. Parents primarily used the internet to find COVID-19 information and focused on sources that they determined to be credible, trustworthy, simple, and engaging. As the pandemic evolved, participants' information-seeking behaviors changed, specifically their topics of interest and search frequency. Most parents were not aware of the RecMap website before this study but found satisfaction with its concept and layout and expressed intentions to use and share it with others. Parents experienced some barriers to using the RecMap website and suggested key areas for improvement to facilitate its usability and perceived usefulness. Recommendations included a more user-friendly home page for lay audiences (separate public-facing user interface), improving the search and filter options, quicker navigation, clearer titles, more family-friendly graphics, and improving mobile-friendly access. Several strategies to disseminate the RecMap website were also expressed, including a mix of traditional and nontraditional methods (handouts and social media) in credible and high-traffic locations that parents frequent often. CONCLUSIONS Overall, parents liked the concept of the RecMap website but had some suggestions to improve its usability (language, navigation, and website interface). These findings can be used to improve the RecMap website for parents and offer insight for the development and dissemination of effective web-based health information tools and resources for the general public.
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- Samantha Cyrkot
- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Piggott T, Moja L, Jenei K, Kredo T, Skoetz N, Banzi R, Trapani D, Leong T, McCaul M, Lavis JN, Akl EA, Nonino F, Iorio A, Laurson-Doube J, Huttner BD, Schünemann HJ. GRADE Concept 7: Issues and Insights Linking Guideline Recommendations to Trustworthy Essential Medicine Lists. J Clin Epidemiol 2024; 166:111241. [PMID: 38123105 PMCID: PMC10939133 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.111241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 12/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Guidelines and essential medicine lists (EMLs) bear similarities and differences in the process that lead to decisions. Access to essential medicines is central to achieve universal health coverage. The World Health Organization (WHO) EML has guided prioritization of essential medicines globally for nearly 50 years, and national EMLs (NEMLs) exist in over 130 countries. Guideline and EML decisions, at WHO or national levels, are not always coordinated and aligned. We sought to explore challenges, and potential solutions, for decision-making to support trustworthy medicine selection for EMLs from a Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) Working Group perspective. We primarily focus on the WHO EML; however, our findings may be applicable to NEML decisions as well. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We identified key challenges in connecting the EML to health guidelines by involving a broad group of stakeholders and assessing case studies including real applications to the WHO EML, South Africa NEML, and a multiple sclerosis guideline connected to a WHO EML application for multiple sclerosis treatments. To address challenges, we utilized the results of a survey and feedback from the stakeholders, and iteratively met as a project group. We drafted a conceptual framework of challenges and potential solutions. We presented a summary of the results for feedback to all attendees of the GRADE Working Group meetings in November 2022 (approximately 120 people) and in May 2023 (approximately 100 people) before finalizing the framework. RESULTS We prioritized issues and insights/solutions that addressed the connections between the EML and health guidelines. Our suggested solutions include early planning alignment of guideline groups and EMLs, considering shared participation to strengthen linkage, further clarity on price/cost considerations, and using explicit shared criteria to make guideline and EML decisions. We also provide recommendations to strengthen the connection between WHO EML and NEMLs including through contextualization methods. CONCLUSION This GRADE concept article, jointly developed by key stakeholders from the guidelines and EMLs field, identified key conceptual issues and potential solutions to support the continued advancement of trustworthy EMLs. Adopting structured decision criteria that can be linked to guideline recommendations bears the potential to advance health equity and gaps in availability of essential medicines within and between countries.
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- Thomas Piggott
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, Canada.
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- Department of Health Product Policy and Standards, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
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- Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Hematology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; European institute of oncology, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Unit of Epidemiology and Statistics, Bologna, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre in Evidence-Based Research Synthesis and Guideline Development, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Mike Gent Chair in Healthcare Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Health Product Policy and Standards, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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Malaga M, Rodriguez-Calienes A, Chavez-Ecos FA, Huerta-Rosario A, Alvarado-Gamarra G, Cabanillas-Lazo M, Moran-Ballon P, Velásquez-Rimachi V, Martinez-Esteban P, Alva-Diaz C. Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a scoping review. Front Neurol 2024; 14:1260610. [PMID: 38249725 PMCID: PMC10797703 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1260610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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Introduction Our objective was to identify recent CPGs for the diagnosis and management of DMD and summarize their characteristics and reliability. Methods We conducted a scoping review of CPGs using MEDLINE, the Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database, Google Scholar, guidelines created by organizations, and other repositories to identify CPGs published in the last 5 years. Our protocol was drafted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses for scoping reviews. To assess the reliability of the CPGs, we used all the domains included in the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation II. Results We selected three CPGs published or updated between 2015 and 2020. All the guidelines showed good or adequate methodological rigor but presented pitfalls in stakeholder involvement and applicability domains. Recommendations were coherent across CPGs on steroid treatment, except for minor differences in dosing regimens. However, the recommendations were different for new drugs. Discussion There is a need for current and reliable CPGs that develop broad topics on the management of DMD and consider the challenges of developing recommendations for RDs.
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- Marco Malaga
- Facultad de Medicina Humana de la Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru
- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
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- Grupo de Investigación Neurociencia, Efectividad Clínica y Salud Pública, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de Ica, Universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga, Ica, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru
- Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Lima, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Sociedad Científica de San Fernando, Lima, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Sociedad Científica Universidad San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Grupo de Investigación Neurociencia, Efectividad Clínica y Salud Pública, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria, REDECS, Lima, Peru
- Universidad Señor de Sipán, Chiclayo, Peru
- Servicio de Neurología, Departamento de Medicina y Oficina de Apoyo a la Docencia e Investigación (OADI), Hospital Daniel Alcides Carrión, Callao, Peru
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Sayfi S, Charide R, Elliott SA, Hartling L, Munan M, Stallwood L, Butcher NJ, Richards DP, Mathew JL, Suvada J, Akl EA, Kredo T, Mbuagbaw L, Motilall A, Baba A, Scott SD, Falavigna M, Klugar M, Friessová T, Lotfi T, Stevens A, Offringa M, Schünemann HJ, Pottie K. A multimethods randomized trial found that plain language versions improved adults understanding of health recommendations. J Clin Epidemiol 2024; 165:111219. [PMID: 38008266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To make informed decisions, the general population should have access to accessible and understandable health recommendations. To compare understanding, accessibility, usability, satisfaction, intention to implement, and preference of adults provided with a digital "Plain Language Recommendation" (PLR) format vs. the original "Standard Language Version" (SLV). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING An allocation-concealed, blinded, controlled superiority trial and a qualitative study to understand participant preferences. An international on-line survey. 488 adults with some English proficiency. 67.8% of participants identified as female, 62.3% were from the Americas, 70.1% identified as white, 32.2% had a bachelor's degree as their highest completed education, and 42% said they were very comfortable reading health information. In collaboration with patient partners, advisors, and the Cochrane Consumer Network, we developed a plain language format of guideline recommendations (PLRs) to compare their effectiveness vs. the original standard language versions (SLVs) as published in the source guideline. We selected two recommendations about COVID-19 vaccine, similar in their content, to compare our versions, one from the World Health Organization (WHO) and one from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The primary outcome was understanding, measured as the proportion of correct responses to seven comprehension questions. Secondary outcomes were accessibility, usability, satisfaction, preference, and intended behavior, measured on a 1-7 scale. RESULTS Participants randomized to the PLR group had a higher proportion of correct responses to the understanding questions for the WHO recommendation (mean difference [MD] of 19.8%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 14.7-24.9%; P < 0.001) but this difference was smaller and not statistically significant for the CDC recommendation (MD of 3.9%, 95% CI -0.7% to 8.3%; P = 0.096). However, regardless of the recommendation, participants found the PLRs more accessible, (MD of 1.2 on the seven-point scale, 95% CI 0.9-1.4%; P < 0.001) and more satisfying (MD of 1.2, 95% CI 0.9-1.4%; P < 0.001). They were also more likely to follow the recommendation if they had not already followed it (MD of 1.2, 95% CI 0.7-1.8%; P < 0.001) and share it with other people they know (MD of 1.9, 95% CI 0.5-1.2%; P < 0.001). There was no significant difference in the preference between the two formats (MD of -0.3, 95% CI -0.5% to 0.03%; P = 0.078). The qualitative interviews supported and contextualized these findings. CONCLUSION Health information provided in a PLR format improved understanding, accessibility, usability, and satisfaction and thereby has the potential to shape public decision-making behavior.
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- Shahab Sayfi
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada; Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Alberta Research Center for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Cochrane Child Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Alberta Research Center for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Cochrane Child Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Alberta Research Center for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- National Evidence and Quality Platform, St. Elizabeth University of Public Health and Social Science, Research Dept., Nam. 1. Maja 1, 81000 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Experts Consortium for COVID-19, Advisor to Government of Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; WHO Executive Board, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Capetown, South Africa; Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Biostatistics Unit, Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health (CDBPH), Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- National Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre), Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Centre for Immunization Readiness, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M6, Canada; Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
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- Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Falavigna M, de Araujo CLP, Barbosa AN, Belli KC, Colpani V, Dal-Pizzol F, da Silva RM, de Azevedo LCP, Dias MBS, do Amaral JLG, Dorneles GP, Ferreira JC, Freitas APDR, Gräf DD, Guimarães HP, Lobo SMA, Machado FR, Nunes MS, de Oliveira MS, Parahiba SM, Rosa RG, Santos VCC, Sobreira ML, Veiga VC, Xavier RM, Zavascki AP, Stein C, de Carvalho CRR. The II Brazilian Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 Joint Guidelines of the Associação Brasileira de Medicina de Emergência, Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira, Associação Médica Brasileira, Sociedade Brasileira de Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia, Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia and Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia. CRITICAL CARE SCIENCE 2023; 35:243-255. [PMID: 38133154 PMCID: PMC10734807 DOI: 10.5935/2965-2774.20230136-en] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To update the recommendations to support decisions regarding the pharmacological treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Brazil. METHODS Experts, including representatives of the Ministry of Health and methodologists, created this guideline. The method used for the rapid development of guidelines was based on the adoption and/or adaptation of existing international guidelines (GRADE ADOLOPMENT) and supported by the e-COVID-19 RecMap platform. The quality of the evidence and the preparation of the recommendations followed the GRADE method. RESULTS Twenty-one recommendations were generated, including strong recommendations for the use of corticosteroids in patients using supplemental oxygen and conditional recommendations for the use of tocilizumab and baricitinib for patients on supplemental oxygen or on noninvasive ventilation and anticoagulants to prevent thromboembolism. Due to suspension of use authorization, it was not possible to make recommendations regarding the use of casirivimab + imdevimab. Strong recommendations against the use of azithromycin in patients without suspected bacterial infection, hydroxychloroquine, convalescent plasma, colchicine, and lopinavir + ritonavir and conditional recommendations against the use of ivermectin and remdesivir were made. CONCLUSION New recommendations for the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 were generated, such as those for tocilizumab and baricitinib. Corticosteroids and prophylaxis for thromboembolism are still recommended, the latter with conditional recommendation. Several drugs were considered ineffective and should not be used to provide the best treatment according to the principles of evidence-based medicine and to promote resource economy.
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- Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia - São Paulo
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira -
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- Hospital Moinhos de Vento - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
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Langford BJ, Leung V, Lo J, Akl EA, Nieuwlaat R, Lotfi T, Brown KA, Daneman N, Schwartz KL, Schünemann HJ. Antibiotic prescribing guideline recommendations in COVID-19: a systematic survey. EClinicalMedicine 2023; 65:102257. [PMID: 37842549 PMCID: PMC10568086 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023] Open
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Background COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are two intersecting public health crises. Antimicrobial overuse in patients with COVID-19 threatens to worsen AMR. Guidelines are fundamental in encouraging antimicrobial stewardship. We sought to assess the quality of antibiotic prescribing guidelines and recommendations in the context of COVID-19, and whether they incorporate principles of antimicrobial stewardship. Methods We performed a systematic survey which included a search using the concepts "antibiotic/antimicrobial" up to November 15, 2022 of the eCOVID-19 living map of recommendations (RecMap) which aggregates guidelines across a range of international sources and all languages. Guidelines providing explicit recommendations regarding antibacterial use in COVID-19 were eligible for inclusion. Guideline and recommendation quality were assessed using the AGREE II and AGREE-REX instruments, respectively. We extracted guideline characteristics including panel representation and the presence or absence of explicit statements related to antimicrobial stewardship (i.e., judicious antibiotic use, antimicrobial resistance or adverse effects as a consequence of antibiotic use). We used logistic regression to evaluate the relationship between guideline characteristics including quality and incorporation of antimicrobial stewardship principles. Protocol registration (OSF): https://osf.io/4pgtc. Findings Twenty-eight guidelines with 63 antibiotic prescribing recommendations were included. Recommendations focused on antibiotic initiation (n = 52, 83%) and less commonly antibiotic selection (n = 13, 21%), and duration of therapy (n = 15, 24%). Guideline and recommendation quality varied widely. Twenty (71%) guidelines incorporated at least one concept relating to antimicrobial stewardship. Including infectious diseases expertise on the guideline panel (OR 9.44, 97.5% CI: 1.09-81.59) and AGREE-REX score (OR 3.26, 97.5% CI: 1.14-9.31 per 10% increase in overall score) were associated with a higher odds of guidelines addressing antimicrobial stewardship. Interpretation There is an opportunity to improve antibiotic prescribing guidelines in terms of both quality and incorporation of antimicrobial stewardship principles. These findings can help guideline developers better address antibiotic stewardship in future recommendations beyond COVID-19. Funding This project was funded by Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE centres.
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- Bradley J. Langford
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Toronto East Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, Hamilton, Canada
- McMaster GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, Hamilton, Canada
- McMaster GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, Hamilton, Canada
- McMaster GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Canada
- Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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Ryan RE, Silke C, Parkhill A, Virgona A, Merner B, Hurley S, Walsh L, de Moel-Mandel C, Schonfeld L, Edwards AG, Kaufman J, Cooper A, Chung RKY, Solo K, Hellard M, Di Tanna GL, Pedrana A, Saich F, Hill S. Communication to promote and support physical distancing for COVID-19 prevention and control. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2023; 10:CD015144. [PMID: 37811673 PMCID: PMC10561351 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd015144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND This review is an update of a rapid review undertaken in 2020 to identify relevant, feasible and effective communication approaches to promote acceptance, uptake and adherence to physical distancing measures for COVID-19 prevention and control. The rapid review was published when little was known about transmission, treatment or future vaccination, and when physical distancing measures (isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, crowd avoidance, work and school measures) were the cornerstone of public health responses globally. This updated review includes more recent evidence to extend what we know about effective pandemic public health communication. This includes considerations of changes needed over time to maintain responsiveness to pandemic transmission waves, the (in)equities and variable needs of groups within communities due to the pandemic, and highlights again the critical role of effective communication as integral to the public health response. OBJECTIVES To update the evidence on the question 'What are relevant, feasible and effective communication approaches to promote acceptance, uptake and adherence to physical distancing measures for COVID-19 prevention and control?', our primary focus was communication approaches to promote and support acceptance, uptake and adherence to physical distancing. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE to explore and identify key elements of effective communication for physical distancing measures for different (diverse) populations and groups. SEARCH METHODS We searched MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Library databases from inception, with searches for this update including the period 1 January 2020 to 18 August 2021. Systematic review and study repositories and grey literature sources were searched in August 2021 and guidelines identified for the eCOVID19 Recommendations Map were screened (November 2021). SELECTION CRITERIA Guidelines or reviews focusing on communication (information, education, reminders, facilitating decision-making, skills acquisition, supporting behaviour change, support, involvement in decision-making) related to physical distancing measures for prevention and/or control of COVID-19 or selected other diseases (sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), influenza, Ebola virus disease (EVD) or tuberculosis (TB)) were included. New evidence was added to guidelines, reviews and primary studies included in the 2020 review. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Methods were based on the original rapid review, using methods developed by McMaster University and informed by Cochrane rapid review guidance. Screening, data extraction, quality assessment and synthesis were conducted by one author and checked by a second author. Synthesis of results was conducted using modified framework analysis, with themes from the original review used as an initial framework. MAIN RESULTS This review update includes 68 studies, with 17 guidelines and 20 reviews added to the original 31 studies. Synthesis identified six major themes, which can be used to inform policy and decision-making related to planning and implementing communication about a public health emergency and measures to protect the community. Theme 1: Strengthening public trust and countering misinformation: essential foundations for effective public health communication Recognising the key role of public trust is essential. Working to build and maintain trust over time underpins the success of public health communications and, therefore, the effectiveness of public health prevention measures. Theme 2: Two-way communication: involving communities to improve the dissemination, accessibility and acceptability of information Two-way communication (engagement) with the public is needed over the course of a public health emergency: at first, recognition of a health threat (despite uncertainties), and regularly as public health measures are introduced or adjusted. Engagement needs to be embedded at all stages of the response and inform tailoring of communications and implementation of public health measures over time. Theme 3: Development of and preparation for public communication: target audience, equity and tailoring Communication and information must be tailored to reach all groups within populations, and explicitly consider existing inequities and the needs of disadvantaged groups, including those who are underserved, vulnerable, from diverse cultural or language groups, or who have lower educational attainment. Awareness that implementing public health measures may magnify existing or emerging inequities is also needed in response planning, enactment and adjustment over time. Theme 4: Public communication features: content, timing and duration, delivery Public communication needs to be based on clear, consistent, actionable and timely (up-to-date) information about preventive measures, including the benefits (whether for individual, social groupings or wider society), harms (likewise) and rationale for use, and include information about supports available to help follow recommended measures. Communication needs to occur through multiple channels and/or formats to build public trust and reach more of the community. Theme 5: Supporting behaviour change at individual and population levels Supporting implementation of public health measures with practical supports and services (e.g. essential supplies, financial support) is critical. Information about available supports must be widely disseminated and well understood. Supports and communication related to them require flexibility and tailoring to explicitly consider community needs, including those of vulnerable groups. Proactively monitoring and countering stigma related to preventive measures (e.g. quarantine) is also necessary to support adherence. Theme 6: Fostering and sustaining receptiveness and responsiveness to public health communication Efforts to foster and sustain public receptiveness and responsiveness to public health communication are needed throughout a public health emergency. Trust, acceptance and behaviours change over time, and communication needs to be adaptive and responsive to these changing needs. Ongoing community engagement efforts should inform communication and public health response measures. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS Implications for practice Evidence highlights the critical role of communication throughout a public health emergency. Like any intervention, communication can be done well or poorly, but the consequences of poor communication during a pandemic may mean the difference between life and death. The approaches to effective communication identified in this review can be used by policymakers and decision-makers, working closely with communication teams, to plan, implement and adjust public communications over the course of a public health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic. Implications for research Despite massive growth in research during the COVID-19 period, gaps in the evidence persist and require high-quality, meaningful research. This includes investigating the experiences of people at heightened COVID-19 risk, and identifying barriers to implementing public communication and protective health measures particular to lower- and middle-income countries, and how to overcome these.
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- Rebecca E Ryan
- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Cochrane Australia, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
- Department of Nursing and Allied Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
- Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Wales COVID-19 Evidence Centre, Cardiff University, 8th floor Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN , UK
- PRIME Centre Wales, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, 8th floor Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
- Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute , The Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Australia
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- Wales COVID-19 Evidence Centre, Cardiff University, 8th floor Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN , UK
- PRIME Centre Wales, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, 8th floor Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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- GRADE McMaster & Cochrane Canada, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University , Hamilton, Ontario , Canada
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- Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland
- The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Health Communication and Participation, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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Akl EA, Cuker A, Mustafa RA, Nieuwlaat R, Stevens A, Schünemann HJ. Prospective collaborative recommendation development: a novel model for more timely and trustworthy guidelines. J Clin Epidemiol 2023; 162:156-159. [PMID: 37648070 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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- Elie A Akl
- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Outcomes and Implementation Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Immunization Readiness, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy
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Elliott SA, Scott SD, Charide R, Patterson-Stallwood L, Sayfi S, Motilall A, Baba A, Lotfi T, Suvada J, Klugar M, Kredo T, Mathew JL, Richards DP, Butcher NJ, Offringa M, Pottie K, Schünemann HJ, Hartling L. A multimethods randomized trial found that plain language versions improved parents' understanding of health recommendations. J Clin Epidemiol 2023; 161:8-19. [PMID: 37421995 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of plain language compared with standard language versions of COVID-19 recommendations specific to child health. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Pragmatic, allocation-concealed, blinded, superiority randomized controlled trial with nested qualitative component. Trial was conducted online, internationally. Parents or legal guardians (≥18 years) of a child (<18 years) were eligible. Participants were randomized to receive a plain language recommendation (PLR) or standard (SLV) verison of a COVID-19 recommendation specific to child health. Primary outcome was understanding. Secondary outcomes included: preference, accessibility, usability, satisfaction, and intended behavior. Interviews explored perceptions and preferences for each format. RESULTS Between July and August 2022, 295 parents were randomized; 241 (81.7%) completed the study (intervention n = 121, control n = 120). Mean understanding scores were significantly different between groups (PLR 3.96 [standard deviation (SD) 2.02], SLV 3.33 [SD 1.88], P = 0.014). Overall participants preferred the PLR version: mean rating 5.05/7.00 (95% CI 4.81, 5.29). Interviews (n = 12 parents) highlighted their preference for the PLR and provided insight on elements to enhance future knowledge mobilization of health recommendations. CONCLUSION Compared to SLVs, parents preferred PLRs and better understood the recommendation. Guideline developers should strive to use plain language to increase understanding, uptake, and implementation of evidence by the public.
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- Sarah A Elliott
- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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- Departments of Science and International Studies, St. Elizabeth University of Public Health and Social Science, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno-Bohunice, Czech Republic
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Five02 Labs Inc, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote and GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Stallwood L, Sammy A, Prebeg M, Relihan J, Baba A, Charide R, Sayfi S, Elliott SA, Hartling L, Munan M, Richards DP, Mathew JL, Kredo T, Mbuagbaw L, Motilall A, Scott SD, Klugar M, Lotfi T, Stevens AL, Pottie K, Schünemann HJ, Butcher NJ, Offringa M. Plain Language vs Standard Format for Youth Understanding of COVID-19 Recommendations: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr 2023; 177:956-965. [PMID: 37548983 PMCID: PMC10407760 DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.2686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Importance To ensure that youths can make informed decisions about their health, it is important that health recommendations be presented for understanding by youths. Objective To compare understanding, accessibility, usability, satisfaction, intention to implement, and preference of youths provided with a digital plain language recommendation (PLR) format vs the original standard language version (SLV) of a health recommendation. Design, Setting, and Participants This pragmatic, allocation-concealed, blinded, superiority randomized clinical trial included individuals from any country who were 15 to 24 years of age, had internet access, and could read and understand English. The trial was conducted from May 27 to July 6, 2022, and included a qualitative component. Interventions An online platform was used to randomize youths in a 1:1 ratio to an optimized digital PLR or SLV format of 1 of 2 health recommendations related to the COVID-19 vaccine; youth-friendly PLRs were developed in collaboration with youth partners and advisors. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcome was understanding, measured as the proportion of correct responses to 7 comprehension questions. Secondary outcomes were accessibility, usability, satisfaction, preference, and intended behavior. After completion of the survey, participants indicated their interest in completing a 1-on-1 semistructured interview to reflect on their preferred digital format (PLR or SLV) and their outcome assessment survey response. Results Of the 268 participants included in the final analysis, 137 were in the PLR group (48.4% female) and 131 were in the SLV group (53.4% female). Most participants (233 [86.9%]) were from North and South America. No significant difference was found in understanding scores between the PLR and SLV groups (mean difference, 5.2%; 95% CI, -1.2% to 11.6%; P = .11). Participants found the PLR to be more accessible and usable (mean difference, 0.34; 95% CI, 0.05-0.63) and satisfying (mean difference, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.06-0.73) and had a stronger preference toward the PLR (mean difference, 4.8; 95% CI, 4.5-5.1 [4.0 indicated a neutral response]) compared with the SLV. No significant difference was found in intended behavior (mean difference, 0.22 (95% CI, -0.20 to 0.74). Interviewees (n = 14) agreed that the PLR was easier to understand and generated constructive feedback to further improve the digital PLR. Conclusions and Relevance In this randomized clinical trial, compared with the SLV, the PLR did not produce statistically significant findings in terms of understanding scores. Youths ranked it higher in terms of accessibility, usability, and satisfaction, suggesting that the PLR may be preferred for communicating health recommendations to youths. The interviews provided suggestions for further improving PLR formats. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05358990.
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- Lisa Stallwood
- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Five02 Labs Inc, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Biostatistics Unit, Father Sean O’Sullivan Research Centre, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Centre for Immunization Readiness, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Dewidar O, Bondok M, Abdelrazeq L, Aliyeva K, Solo K, Welch V, Brignardello-Petersen R, Mathew JL, Hazlewood G, Pottie K, Hartling L, Khalifa DS, Duda S, Falavigna M, Khabsa J, Lotfi T, Petkovic J, Elliot S, Chi Y, Parker R, Kristjansson E, Riddle A, Darzi AJ, Magwood O, Saad A, Rada G, Neumann I, Loeb M, Reveiz L, Mertz D, Piggott T, Turgeon AF, Schünemann H, Tugwell P. Equity issues rarely addressed in the development of COVID-19 formal recommendations and good practice statements: a cross-sectional study. J Clin Epidemiol 2023; 161:116-126. [PMID: 37562727 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To identify COVID-19 actionable statements (e.g., recommendations) focused on specific disadvantaged populations in the living map of COVID-19 recommendations (eCOVIDRecMap) and describe how health equity was assessed in the development of the formal recommendations. METHODS We employed the place of residence, race or ethnicity or culture, occupation, gender or sex, religion, education, socio-economic status, and social capital-Plus framework to identify statements focused on specific disadvantaged populations. We assessed health equity considerations in the evidence to decision frameworks (EtD) of formal recommendations for certainty of evidence and impact on health equity criteria according to the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations criteria. RESULTS We identified 16% (124/758) formal recommendations and 24% (186/819) good practice statements (GPS) that were focused on specific disadvantaged populations. Formal recommendations (40%, 50/124) and GPS (25%, 47/186) most frequently focused on children. Seventy-six percent (94/124) of the recommendations were accompanied with EtDs. Over half (55%, 52/94) of those considered indirectness of the evidence for disadvantaged populations. Considerations in impact on health equity criterion most frequently involved implementation of the recommendation for disadvantaged populations (17%, 16/94). CONCLUSION Equity issues were rarely explicitly considered in the development COVID-19 formal recommendations focused on specific disadvantaged populations. Guidance is needed to support the consideration of health equity in guideline development during health emergencies.
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- Omar Dewidar
- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Health Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
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- Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence and Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- National Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Cochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Beijing Yealth Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China; Cochrane Campbell Global Ageing Partnership, London, UK
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- School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact and Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Epistemonikos Foundation, Santiago, Chile; UC Evidence Centre, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- School of Medicine, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
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- Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health and Incident Management System for COVID-19, WHO Regional Office for the Americas/Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Department of Health Research Methods, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Peterborough Public Health, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit (Trauma-Emergency-Critical Care Medicine), Québec City, Quebec, Canada; Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy; Cochrane Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Yaacoub S, Chamseddine F, Jaber F, Blazic I, Frija G, Akl EA. Exploring the concordance of recommendations across guidelines on chest imaging for the diagnosis and management of COVID-19: A proposed methodological approach based on a case study. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0288359. [PMID: 37498898 PMCID: PMC10374079 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To describe a methodological approach to explore the concordance of recommendations across guidelines and its application to the case of the WHO recommendations on chest imaging for the diagnosis and management of COVID-19. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We followed a methodological approach applied to a case study that included: defining the 'reference guideline' (i.e., the WHO guidance) and the 'reference recommendations'; searching for 'related guidelines' and identifying 'related recommendations'; constructing the PICO for the recommendations; assessing the matching of the PICO of each related recommendation to the PICO corresponding reference recommendation; and assessing the concordance between the PICO-matching recommendations. RESULTS We identified a total of 89 related recommendations from 22 related guidelines. Out of the 89 related recommendations, 43 partly matched and 1 entirely matched one of the reference recommendations, and out of these, 8 were concordant with one of the reference recommendations. When considering the seven reference recommendations, they had a median of 12 related recommendations (range 3-17), a median of 7 PICO-matching recommendations (range 0-13), and a median of 1 concordant recommendation (range 0-4). CONCLUSION Following a detailed methodological approach, we were able to explore the concordance between our reference recommendations and related recommendations from other guidelines. A relatively low percentage of recommendations was concordant.
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- Sally Yaacoub
- Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Clinical Hospital Centre Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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Mathew JL. Efficiency, Economy and Excellence: Experimental Exploration of Evidence-based Guideline Development in Resource-Constrained Settings. Indian J Pediatr 2023; 90:700-707. [PMID: 37106227 PMCID: PMC10139904 DOI: 10.1007/s12098-023-04575-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Development of clinical practice guidelines is a scientific process based on a thorough review and appraisal of the global evidence, but factoring in local contextually relevant issues. It is highly resource intensive, demanding considerable time, human skills, and finances- making it challenging in resource-constrained settings. This article summarizes a unique attempt to develop evidence-based guidelines in such settings. This was made possible by mentoring and monitoring a group of committed healthcare professionals with limited prior expertise in evidence-based guideline development. The various steps included an online training workshop to build knowledge and skills. This was followed by a systematic process of identifying topics requiring evidence-based guidelines. Thereafter, the topics were prioritized through a Delphi process. Formal clinical questions were framed using the PICOTS (Patient/ Population, Intervention/ Exposure, Comparison, Outcome, Time-frame, Setting) format. The guideline development process was made time and resource efficient by starting with a formal search for existing guidelines whose recommendations could be adopted, adapted, or adoloped to the local setting. If such guidelines were unavailable, high quality secondary evidence (systemic reviews) was accessed to find answers to the clinical questions. If unavailable, de novo systematic reviews of primary research studies were undertaken. The evidence base was critically appraised and graded. Formal evidence-to-decision formats were used to enable translation of the evidence to recommendations implementable in the local setting. The entire guideline development process was completed with zero financial allocation. This model focusing on efficiency, economy, and excellence, can be emulated in diverse resource-constrained settings.
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- Joseph L Mathew
- Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
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Ragusa M, Tortosa F, Rada G, Vergara C, Zaragoza L, Farrell J, Torres M, Abdala V, Izcovich A, Haby M, Schunemann HJ, Garcia-Saiso S, Reveiz L. The BIGG-REC database makes available all WHO/PAHO evidence informed recommendations. J Clin Epidemiol 2023; 159:257-265. [PMID: 37059238 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To build and maintain a living database of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) recommendations developed using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Guidelines are identified from WHO and PAHO databases. We periodically extract recommendations, according to the health and well-being targets of sustainable development goal 3 (SDG-3). RESULTS As of March 2022, the International database of GRADE guidelines (https://bigg-rec.bvsalud.org/en) database hosted 2,682 recommendations contained in 285 WHO/PAHO guidelines. Recommendations were classified as follows: communicable diseases (1,581), children's health (1,182), universal health (1,171), sexual and reproductive health (910), noncommunicable diseases (677), maternal health (654), COVID-19 (224), use of psychoactive substances (99), tobacco (14) and road and traffic accidents (16). International database of GRADE guidelines allows searching by SDG-3, condition or disease, type of intervention, institution, year of publication, and age. CONCLUSION Recommendation maps provide an important resource for health professionals, organizations and member states that use evidence-informed guidance to make better decisions, providing a source for the adoption or adaptation of recommendations to meet their needs. This one-stop shop database of evidence-informed recommendations built with intuitive functionalities undoubtedly represents a long-needed tool for decision-makers, guideline developers, and the public at large.
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- Martín Ragusa
- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Epistemonikos Foundation, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada & McMaster GRADE Centres, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Humanitas University, Milan, Italy; Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA
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- Knowledge Translation and Evidence Program, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health Department, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA.
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Lin L, Xing A, Chu H, Murad MH, Xu C, Baer BR, Wells MT, Sanchez-Ramos L. Assessing the robustness of results from clinical trials and meta-analyses with the fragility index. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2023; 228:276-282. [PMID: 36084702 PMCID: PMC9974556 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.08.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The fragility index has been increasingly used to assess the robustness of the results of clinical trials since 2014. It aims at finding the smallest number of event changes that could alter originally statistically significant results. Despite its popularity, some researchers have expressed several concerns about the validity and usefulness of the fragility index. It offers a comprehensive review of the fragility index's rationale, calculation, software, and interpretation, with emphasis on application to studies in obstetrics and gynecology. This article presents the fragility index in the settings of individual clinical trials, standard pairwise meta-analyses, and network meta-analyses. Moreover, this article provides worked examples to demonstrate how the fragility index can be appropriately calculated and interpreted. In addition, the limitations of the traditional fragility index and some solutions proposed in the literature to address these limitations were reviewed. In summary, the fragility index is recommended to be used as a supplemental measure in the reporting of clinical trials and a tool to communicate the robustness of trial results to clinicians. Other considerations that can aid in the fragility index's interpretation include the loss to follow-up and the likelihood of data modifications that achieve the loss of statistical significance.
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- Lifeng Lin
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
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- Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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- Statistical Research and Innovation, Global Biometrics and Data Management, Pfizer Inc, New York, NY; Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
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- Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Population Health Across-Life Cycle & Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health and Aristogenics, Anhui Medical University, Anhui, China; School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Anhui, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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- Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
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Charide R, Stallwood L, Munan M, Sayfi S, Hartling L, Butcher NJ, Offringa M, Elliott S, Richards DP, Mathew JL, Akl EA, Kredo T, Mbuagbaw L, Motillal A, Baba A, Prebeg M, Relihan J, Scott SD, Suvada J, Falavigna M, Klugar M, Lotfi T, Stevens A, Pottie K, Schünemann HJ. Knowledge mobilization activities to support decision-making by youth, parents, and adults using a systematic and living map of evidence and recommendations on COVID-19: protocol for three randomized controlled trials and qualitative user-experience studies. Trials 2023; 24:27. [PMID: 36641457 PMCID: PMC9840541 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-023-07067-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic underlined that guidelines and recommendations must be made more accessible and more understandable to the general public to improve health outcomes. The objective of this study is to evaluate, quantify, and compare the public's understanding, usability, satisfaction, intention to implement, and preference for different ways of presenting COVID-19 health recommendations derived from the COVID-19 Living Map of Recommendations and Gateway to Contextualization (RecMap). METHODS AND ANALYSIS This is a protocol for a multi-method study. Through an online survey, we will conduct pragmatic allocation-concealed, blinded superiority randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in three populations to test alternative formats of presenting health recommendations: adults, parents, and youth, with at least 240 participants in each population. Prior to initiating the RCT, our interventions will have been refined with relevant stakeholder input. The intervention arm will receive a plain language recommendation (PLR) format while the control arm will receive the corresponding original recommendation format as originally published by the guideline organizations (standard language version). Our primary outcome is understanding, and our secondary outcomes are accessibility and usability, satisfaction, intended behavior, and preference for the recommendation formats. Each population's results will be analyzed separately. However, we are planning a meta-analysis of the results across populations. At the end of each survey, participants will be invited to participate in an optional one-on-one, virtual semi-structured interview to explore their user experience. All interviews will be transcribed and analyzed using the principles of thematic analysis and a hybrid inductive and deductive approach. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION Through Clinical Trials Ontario, the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board has reviewed and approved this protocol (Project ID: 3856). The University of Alberta has approved the parent portion of the trial (Project ID:00114894). Findings from this study will be disseminated through open-access publications in peer-reviewed journals and using social media. TRIAL REGISTRATION Clinicaltrials.gov NCT05358990 . Registered on May 3, 2022.
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- Rana Charide
- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada
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- grid.42327.300000 0004 0473 9646Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.17089.370000 0001 2190 316XAlberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
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- grid.39381.300000 0004 1936 8884Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario Canada
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- grid.17089.370000 0001 2190 316XAlberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada ,grid.17089.370000 0001 2190 316XCochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
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- grid.42327.300000 0004 0473 9646Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada ,grid.17063.330000 0001 2157 2938Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.42327.300000 0004 0473 9646Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada ,grid.17063.330000 0001 2157 2938Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada ,grid.42327.300000 0004 0473 9646Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.17089.370000 0001 2190 316XAlberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada ,grid.17089.370000 0001 2190 316XCochrane Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
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- Five02 Labs Inc, Toronto, Ontario Canada ,grid.498672.6Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.415131.30000 0004 1767 2903Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada ,grid.22903.3a0000 0004 1936 9801Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- grid.415021.30000 0000 9155 0024Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa ,grid.11956.3a0000 0001 2214 904XDivision of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada ,grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada ,grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada ,grid.416721.70000 0001 0742 7355Biostatistics Unit, Father Sean O’Sullivan Research Centre, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario Canada ,grid.460723.40000 0004 0647 4688Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health (CDBPH), Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon ,grid.11956.3a0000 0001 2214 904XDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada
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- grid.42327.300000 0004 0473 9646Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.155956.b0000 0000 8793 5925Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.155956.b0000 0000 8793 5925Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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- grid.17089.370000 0001 2190 316XFaculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
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- Departments of Science and International Studies, St. Elizabeth University of Public Health and Social Science, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- grid.8532.c0000 0001 2200 7498National Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- grid.10267.320000 0001 2194 0956Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre), Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada
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- grid.415368.d0000 0001 0805 4386Centre for Immunization Readiness, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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- grid.39381.300000 0004 1936 8884Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario Canada ,grid.39381.300000 0004 1936 8884Department of Family Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario Canada
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- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada ,grid.452490.eDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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Bousquet J, Anto JM, Sousa‐Pinto B, Czarlewski W, Bedbrook A, Haahtela T, Klimek L, Pfaar O, Kuna P, Kupczyk M, Regateiro FS, Samolinski B, Valiulis A, Yorgancioglu A, Arnavielhe S, Basagaña X, Bergmann KC, Bosnic‐Anticevich S, Brussino L, Canonica GW, Cardona V, Cecchi L, Chaves‐Loureiro C, Costa E, Cruz AA, Gemicioglu B, Fokkens WJ, Ivancevich JC, Kraxner H, Kvedariene V, Larenas‐Linnemann DE, Laune D, Louis R, Makris M, Maurer M, Melén E, Micheli Y, Morais‐Almeida M, Mullol J, Niedoszytko M, Okamoto Y, Papadopoulos NG, Patella V, Pham‐Thi N, Rouadi PW, Sastre J, Scichilone N, Sheikh A, Sofiev M, Taborda‐Barata L, Toppila‐Salmi S, Tsiligianni I, Valovirta E, Ventura MT, Vieira RJ, Zidarn M, Amaral R, Ansotegui IJ, Bédard A, Benveniste S, Bewick M, Bindslev‐Jensen C, Blain H, Bonini M, Bourret R, Braido F, Carreiro‐Martins P, Charpin D, Cherrez‐Ojeda I, Chivato T, Chu DK, Cingi C, Del Giacco S, de Blay F, Devillier P, De Vries G, Doulaptsi M, Doyen V, Dray G, Fontaine J, Gomez RM, Hagemann J, Heffler E, Hofmann M, Jassem E, Jutel M, Keil T, Kritikos V, Kull I, Kulus M, Lourenço O, Mathieu‐Dupas E, Menditto E, Mösges R, Murray R, Nadif R, Neffen H, Nicola S, O’Hehir R, Olze H, Palamarchuk Y, Pépin J, Pétré B, Picard R, Pitsios C, Puggioni F, Quirce S, Raciborski F, Reitsma S, Roche N, Rodriguez‐Gonzalez M, Romantowski J, Sá‐Sousa A, Serpa FS, Savouré M, Shamji MH, Sova M, Sperl A, Stellato C, Todo‐Bom A, Tomazic PV, Vandenplas O, Van Eerd M, Vasankari T, Viart F, Waserman S, Fonseca JA, Zuberbier T. Digitally-enabled, patient-centred care in rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity: The ARIA-MASK-air ® approach. Clin Transl Allergy 2023; 13:e12215. [PMID: 36705508 PMCID: PMC9823305 DOI: 10.1002/clt2.12215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
MASK-air® , a validated mHealth app (Medical Device regulation Class IIa) has enabled large observational implementation studies in over 58,000 people with allergic rhinitis and/or asthma. It can help to address unmet patient needs in rhinitis and asthma care. MASK-air® is a Good Practice of DG Santé on digitally-enabled, patient-centred care. It is also a candidate Good Practice of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). MASK-air® data has enabled novel phenotype discovery and characterisation, as well as novel insights into the management of allergic rhinitis. MASK-air® data show that most rhinitis patients (i) are not adherent and do not follow guidelines, (ii) use as-needed treatment, (iii) do not take medication when they are well, (iv) increase their treatment based on symptoms and (v) do not use the recommended treatment. The data also show that control (symptoms, work productivity, educational performance) is not always improved by medications. A combined symptom-medication score (ARIA-EAACI-CSMS) has been validated for clinical practice and trials. The implications of the novel MASK-air® results should lead to change management in rhinitis and asthma.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jean Bousquet
- Institute of AllergologyCharité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinCorporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMPAllergology and ImmunologyBerlinGermany
- University Hospital MontpellierMontpellierFrance
- InsermEquipe d’Epidémiologie Respiratoire IntégrativeCESPVillejuifFrance
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- ISGlobalBarcelona Institute for Global HealthBarcelonaSpain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)BarcelonaSpain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)BarcelonaSpain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)BarcelonaSpain
| | - Bernardo Sousa‐Pinto
- MEDCIDS ‐ Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision SciencesFaculty of MedicineUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- CINTESIS – Health Research NetworkFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
- RISE – Health Research Network, MEDCIDSFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
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- Skin and Allergy HospitalHelsinki University HospitalUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryUniversitätsmedizin MainzMainzGermany
- Center for Rhinology and AllergologyWiesbadenGermany
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- Section of Rhinology and AllergyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryUniversity Hospital MarburgPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
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- Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and AllergyBarlicki University HospitalMedical University of LodzLodzPoland
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- Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and AllergyBarlicki University HospitalMedical University of LodzLodzPoland
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- Allergy and Clinical Immunology UnitCentro Hospitalar e Universitário de CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
- ICBR, Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research, CIBBFaculty of MedicineUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
- Institute of ImmunologyFaculty of MedicineUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- Department of Prevention of Environmental Hazards, Allergology and ImmunologyMedical University of WarsawWarsawPoland
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine and Institute of Health SciencesVilniusLithuania
- Medical Faculty of Vilnius UniversityVilniusLithuania
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- Department of Pulmonary DiseasesCelal Bayar University, Faculty of MedicineManisaTurkey
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- ISGlobalBarcelona Institute for Global HealthBarcelonaSpain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)BarcelonaSpain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)BarcelonaSpain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)BarcelonaSpain
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- Institute of AllergologyCharité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinCorporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMPAllergology and ImmunologyBerlinGermany
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- Quality Use of Respiratory Medicine GroupWoolcock Institute of Medical ResearchThe University of SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
- Sydney Local Health DistrictSydneyNSWAustralia
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- Department of Medical SciencesAllergy and Clinical Immunology UnitUniversity of TorinoTorinoItaly
- Mauriziano HospitalTorinoItaly
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- Department of Biomedical SciencesHumanitas University, Pieve EmanueleMilanItaly
- Personalized Medicine, Asthma and AllergyHumanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCSRozzanoItaly
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- Allergy SectionDepartment of Internal MedicineHospital Vall d'HebronBarcelonaSpain
- ARADyAL Research NetworkBarcelonaSpain
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- SOS Allergology and Clinical ImmunologyUSL Toscana CentroPratoItaly
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- Pneumology UnitHospitais da Universidade de CoimbraCentro Hospitalar e Universitário de CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUINTEFaculty of Pharmacy and Competence Center on Active and Healthy AgeingUniversity of Porto (Porto4Ageing)PortoPortugal
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- Fundaçao ProARFederal University of Bahia and GARD/WHO Planning GroupSalvadorBahiaBrazil
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- Cerrahpasa Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Pulmonary DiseasesIstanbul University‐CerrahpasaIstanbulTurkey
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- Department of OtorhinolaryngologyAmsterdam University Medical Centres, location AMCAmsterdamthe Netherlands
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgerySemmelweis UniversityBudapestHungary
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- Faculty of MedicineInstitute of Clinical MedicineClinic of Chest Diseases and AllergologyVilnius UniversityVilniusLithuania
- Faculty of MedicineDepartment of PathologyInstitute of Biomedical SciencesVilnius UniversityVilniusLithuania
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- Department of Pulmonary MedicineCHU LiegeLiègeBelgium
- GIGA I3 Research GroupUniversity of LiegeLiègeBelgium
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- Allergy Unit “D Kalogeromitros”2nd Department of Dermatology and VenereologyNational & Kapodistrian University of Athens“Attikon” University HospitalAthensGreece
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- Institute of AllergologyCharité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinCorporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMPAllergology and ImmunologyBerlinGermany
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- Sach's Children and Youth HospitalSödersjukhusetStockholmSweden
- Department of Clinical Science and EducationSödersjukhusetKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Rhinology Unit & Smell ClinicENT DepartmentHospital ClínicBarcelonaSpain
- Clinical & Experimental Respiratory ImmunoallergyIDIBAPS, CIBERESUniversity of BarcelonaBarcelonaSpain
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyDepartment of Medicine“Santa Maria della Speranza” Hospital, BattipagliaSalernoItaly
- Agency of Health ASLSalernoItaly
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- Ecole Polytechnique PalaiseauIRBA (Institut de Recherche Bio‐Médicale des Armées)BretignyFrance
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryEye and Ear University HospitalBeirutLebanon
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryDar Al Shifa HospitalSalmiyaKuwait
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- Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, CIBERESFaculty of MedicineAutonoma University of MadridMadridSpain
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- Usher InstituteThe University of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Department of ImmunoallergologyCova da Beira University Hospital CentreCovilhãPortugal
- UBIAir ‐ Clinical & Experimental Lung Centre and CICS‐UBI Health Sciences Research CentreUniversity of Beira InteriorCovilhãPortugal
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- Skin and Allergy HospitalHelsinki University HospitalUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- International Primary Care Respiratory Group IPCRGAberdeenScotland
- Health Planning UnitFaculty of MedicineDepartment of Social MedicineUniversity of CreteCreteGreece
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- Department of Lung Diseases and Clinical ImmunologyUniversity of TurkuTurkuFinland
- Terveystalo Allergy ClinicTurkuFinland
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- MEDCIDS ‐ Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision SciencesFaculty of MedicineUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- CINTESIS – Health Research NetworkFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
- RISE – Health Research Network, MEDCIDSFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
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- University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic DiseasesGolnikSlovenia
- Faculty of MedicineUniversity of LjubljanaLjubljanaSlovenia
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- MEDCIDS ‐ Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision SciencesFaculty of MedicineUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- CINTESIS – Health Research NetworkFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
- RISE – Health Research Network, MEDCIDSFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
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- InsermEquipe d’Epidémiologie Respiratoire IntégrativeCESPVillejuifFrance
- Université Paris‐Saclay, UVSQUniversity Paris‐SudVillejuifFrance
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- National Center of Expertise in Cognitive Stimulation (CEN STIMCO)Broca HospitalParisFrance
- Mines ParisTech CRI ‐ PSL Research UniversityFontainebleauFrance
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- University of Central Lancashire Medical SchoolPrestonUK
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- Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis (ORCA)OdenseDenmark
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy CentreOdense University HospitalOdenseFinland
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- Department of GeriatricsMontpellier University Hospital, MUSEMontpellierFrance
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- Department of Clinical and Surgical SciencesFondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCSRomeItaly
- National Heart and Lung InstituteRoyal Brompton Hospital & Imperial College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Internal Medicine (DiMI)University of GenoaGenovaItaly
- IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San MartinoGenovaItaly
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- NOVA Medical School/Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC)LisbonPortugal
- Serviço de ImunoalergologiaHospital de Dona EstefâniaCentro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa CentralLisbonPortugal
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- Clinique des BronchesAllergie et SommeilHôpital NordMarseilleFrance
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- Universidad Espíritu SantoSamborondónEcuador
- Respiralab Research GroupGuayaquil, GuayasEcuador
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- School of MedicineUniversity CEU San PabloMadridSpain
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Department of MedicineMcMaster UniversityHamiltonONCanada
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- Medical FacultyENT DepartmentEskisehir Osmangazi UniversityEskisehirTurkey
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- Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health and Unit of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyUniversity Hospital “Duilio Casula”University of CagliariCagliariItaly
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- Allergy DivisionChest Disease DepartmentUniversity Hospital of StrasbourgStrasbourgFrance
- Federation of Translational MedicineUniversity of StrasbourgStrasbourgFrance
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- VIM Suresnes, UMR 0892Pôle des Maladies des Voies RespiratoiresHôpital FochUniversité Paris‐SaclaySuresnesFrance
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryUniversity Hospital of CreteHeraklion, CreteGreece
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- Department of Chest MedicineCentre Hospitalier Universitaire UCL NamurNamurBelgique
- Université Catholique de LouvainYvoirBelgium
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryUniversitätsmedizin MainzMainzGermany
- Center for Rhinology and AllergologyWiesbadenGermany
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- Department of Biomedical SciencesHumanitas University, Pieve EmanueleMilanItaly
- Personalized Medicine, Asthma and AllergyHumanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCSRozzanoItaly
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- Institute of AllergologyCharité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinCorporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Berlin Institute of HealthBerlinGermany
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- Department of PneumologyMedical University of GdańskGdańskPoland
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- Department of Clinical ImmunologyWrocław Medical UniversityWrocławPoland
- ALL‐MED Medical Research InstituteWroclawPoland
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- Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health EconomicsCharité ‐ Universitätsmedizin BerlinBerlinGermany
- Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and BiometryUniversity of WuerzburgWuerzburgGermany
- State Institute of Health, Bavarian Health and Food Safety AuthorityErlangenGermany
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- Quality Use of Respiratory Medicine GroupWoolcock Institute of Medical ResearchThe University of SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
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- Sach's Children and Youth HospitalSödersjukhusetStockholmSweden
- Department of Clinical Science and EducationSödersjukhusetKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases and AllergologyMedical University of WarsawWarsawPoland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and CICS – UBIHealth Sciences Research CentreUniversity of Beira InteriorCovilhãPortugal
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- CIRFFDepartment of PharmacyUniversity of Naples Federico IINaplesItaly
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- CRI‐Clinical Research International‐LtdHamburgGermany
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- Medical Communication ConsultantMedscript Ltd, DundalkIreland and WellingtonNew Zealand
- Research FellowOPCCambridgeUK
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- InsermEquipe d’Epidémiologie Respiratoire IntégrativeCESPVillejuifFrance
- Université Paris‐Saclay, UVSQUniversity Paris‐SudVillejuifFrance
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- Center of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory DiseasesSanta FeArgentina
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- Department of Medical SciencesAllergy and Clinical Immunology UnitUniversity of TorinoTorinoItaly
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- Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory MedicineAlfred Hospital and Central Clinical SchoolMonash UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Berlin Institute of HealthBerlinGermany
- Department of OtorhinolaryngologyCharité‐Universitätsmedizin BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Université Grenoble AlpesLaboratoire HP2GrenobleFrance
- INSERMU1042VillejuifFrance
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- Conseil Général de l'Economie Ministère de l'Economiede l'Industrie et du NumériqueParisFrance
| | | | - Francesca Puggioni
- Department of Biomedical SciencesHumanitas University, Pieve EmanueleMilanItaly
- Personalized Medicine, Asthma and AllergyHumanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCSRozzanoItaly
| | - Santiago Quirce
- Department of AllergyHospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IdiPAZ)MadridSpain
| | - Filip Raciborski
- Department of Prevention of Environmental Hazards, Allergology and ImmunologyMedical University of WarsawWarsawPoland
| | - Sietze Reitsma
- Department of OtorhinolaryngologyAmsterdam University Medical Centres, AMCAmsterdamthe Netherlands
| | - Nicolas Roche
- PneumologieAP‐HP Centre Université de Paris CitéHôpital CochinParisFrance
- UMR 1016Institut CochinParisFrance
| | | | - Jan Romantowski
- Department of AllergologyMedical University of GdańskGdanskPoland
| | - Ana Sá‐Sousa
- MEDCIDS ‐ Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision SciencesFaculty of MedicineUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- CINTESIS – Health Research NetworkFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
- RISE – Health Research Network, MEDCIDSFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
| | - Faradiba S. Serpa
- Asthma Reference Center ‐ School of Medicine of Santa Casa de Misericórdia of VitóriaVitoria, Espirito SantoBrazil
| | - Marine Savouré
- InsermEquipe d’Epidémiologie Respiratoire IntégrativeCESPVillejuifFrance
- Université Paris‐Saclay, UVSQUniversity Paris‐SudVillejuifFrance
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- National Heart and Lung InstituteImperial CollegeLondonUK
- NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research CentreLondonUK
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and TuberculosisUniversity HospitalBrnoCzech Republic
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- Center for Rhinology and AllergologyWiesbadenGermany
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry “Scuola Medica Salernitana”University of SalernoSalernoItaly
| | - Ana Todo‐Bom
- ImunoalergologiaCentro Hospitalar Universitário de CoimbraFaculty of MedicineUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- Department of General ORLH&NSMedical University of GrazENT‐University Hospital GrazGrazSteiermarkAustria
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- Department of Chest MedicineCentre Hospitalier Universitaire UCL NamurNamurBelgique
- Université Catholique de LouvainYvoirBelgium
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- Fihla, Finnish Lung AssociationHelsinkiFinland
- University of TurkuTurkuFinland
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- Department of Medicine, Clinical Immunology and AllergyMcMaster UniversityHamiltonOntarioCanada
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- MEDCIDS ‐ Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision SciencesFaculty of MedicineUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- CINTESIS – Health Research NetworkFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
- RISE – Health Research Network, MEDCIDSFaculty of Medicine, University of PortoPortoPortugal
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- Institute of AllergologyCharité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinCorporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMPAllergology and ImmunologyBerlinGermany
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Dewidar O, Lotfi T, Langendam M, Parmelli E, Saz Parkinson Z, Solo K, Chu DK, Mathew JL, Akl EA, Brignardello-Petersen R, Mustafa RA, Moja L, Iorio A, Chi Y, Canelo-Aybar C, Kredo T, Karpusheff J, Turgeon AF, Alonso-Coello P, Wiercioch W, Gerritsen A, Klugar M, Rojas MX, Tugwell P, Welch VA, Pottie K, Munn Z, Nieuwlaat R, Ford N, Stevens A, Khabsa J, Nasir Z, Leontiadis GI, Meerpohl JJ, Piggott T, Qaseem A, Matthews M, Schünemann HJ. Which actionable statements qualify as good practice statements In Covid-19 guidelines? A systematic appraisal. BMJ Evid Based Med 2022; 27:361-369. [PMID: 35428695 PMCID: PMC9044517 DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the development and quality of actionable statements that qualify as good practice statements (GPS) reported in COVID-19 guidelines. DESIGN AND SETTING Systematic review . We searched MEDLINE, MedSci, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), databases of Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Guidelines, NICE, WHO and Guidelines International Network (GIN) from March 2020 to September 2021. We included original or adapted recommendations addressing any COVID-19 topic. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES We used GRADE Working Group criteria for assessing the appropriateness of issuing a GPS: (1) clear and actionable; (2) rationale necessitating the message for healthcare practice; (3) practicality of systematically searching for evidence; (4) likely net positive consequences from implementing the GPS and (5) clear link to the indirect evidence. We assessed guideline quality using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II tool. RESULTS 253 guidelines from 44 professional societies issued 3726 actionable statements. We classified 2375 (64%) as GPS; of which 27 (1%) were labelled as GPS by guideline developers. 5 (19%) were labelled as GPS by their authors but did not meet GPS criteria. Of the 2375 GPS, 85% were clear and actionable; 59% provided a rationale necessitating the message for healthcare practice, 24% reported the net positive consequences from implementing the GPS. Systematic collection of evidence was deemed impractical for 13% of the GPS, and 39% explained the chain of indirect evidence supporting GPS development. 173/2375 (7.3%) statements explicitly satisfied all five criteria. The guidelines' overall quality was poor regardless of the appropriateness of GPS development and labelling. CONCLUSIONS Statements that qualify as GPS are common in COVID-19 guidelines but are characterised by unclear designation and development processes, and methodological weaknesses.
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- Omar Dewidar
- Methods Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Health Product Policy and Standards, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Yealth Network, Beijing Yealth Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
- Cochrane Campbell Global Ageing Partnership, London, UK
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- Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau-CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
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- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec (CHA), CHA-Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau-CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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- Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Methods Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Deparatment of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Joanna Briggs Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany
- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
- Cochrane Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Sayfi S, Alayche I, Magwood O, Gassanov M, Motilall A, Dewidar O, Detambel N, Matthews M, Ahmed R, Schünemann HJ, Pottie K. Identifying Health Equity Factors That Influence the Public's Perception of COVID-19 Health Information and Recommendations: A Scoping Review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph191912073. [PMID: 36231375 PMCID: PMC9565967 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global public health and public trust in health recommendations. Trust in health information may waver in the context of health inequities. The objective of this scoping review is to map evidence on public perceptions of COVID-19 prevention information using the PROGRESS-Plus health equity framework. We systematically searched the MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PsycInfo, and Embase databases from January 2020 to July 2021. We identified 792 citations and 31 studies published in 15 countries that met all inclusion criteria. The majority (30/31; 96.7%) of the studies used an observational design (74.2% cross-sectional, 16.1% cohort, 6.5% case study, 3.2% experimental trials). Most studies (61.3%) reported on perception, understanding, and uptake, and 35.5% reported on engagement, compliance, and adherence to COVID-19 measures. The most frequently reported sources of COVID-related information were social media, TV, news (newspapers/news websites), and government sources. We identified five important equity factors related to public trust and uptake of recommendations: education and health literacy (19 studies; 61.3%), gender (15 studies; 48.4%), age (15 studies; 48.4%), socioeconomic status (11 studies; 35.5%), and place of residence (10 studies; 32.3%). Our review suggests that equity factors play a role in public perception of COVID-19 information and recommendations. A future systematic review could be conducted to estimate the impact of equity factors on perception and behavior outcomes.
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- Shahab Sayfi
- Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 125 University, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
- Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 85 Primrose Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1R 6M1, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 85 Primrose Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1R 6M1, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Communication, University at Albany—State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada
- Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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Singhal KK, Mathew JL, Dsouza JM, Agrawal S, Kutlehrria I, Singh M. Systematic Identification and Critical Appraisal of Pediatric COVID-19 Guidelines Applicable in India. Indian J Pediatr 2022; 89:706-713. [PMID: 35044617 PMCID: PMC8767361 DOI: 10.1007/s12098-022-04081-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To systematically identify and critically appraise the methodological quality of pediatric guidelines applicable to management of COVID-19 in India. METHODS Pediatric COVID-19 guidelines applicable to India, published until 30 April 2021, were identified through a systematic search across ten databases. Each was critically appraised for methodological quality using the AGREE-II tool, by at least two appraisers. Median (interquartile range) of the total score and domain-wise scores were calculated, and compared for Indian vs. foreign guidelines, updated vs. original versions of guidelines, and those developed earlier vs. later in the pandemic. RESULTS A total of 62 guidelines was identified. Only 8 (12.9%) were published in India. The overall AGREE-II score ranged from 4.7% to 72.8%; with median (IQR) 37.9% (29.4, 48.6). This suggested overall low(er) methodological quality. The median (IQR) domain-wise scores were as follows: Scope and Purpose 66.7% (58.3, 83.3), Stakeholder Involvement 41.7% (30.6, 83.3), Rigor of Development 23.4% (14.8, 37.5), Clarity of Presentation 59.7% (50.0, 75.0), Applicability 27.1% (18.8, 33.3), and Editorial Independence 8.3% (0.0, 45.8). This suggested diversity in quality of different aspects of the guidelines, with very low quality in the critical domain of methodological rigor. There were no statistically significant differences in the overall scores of Indian vs. foreign guidelines, updated versions vs. original versions, and those developed earlier vs. later in the pandemic. CONCLUSION The currently available pediatric COVID-19 guidelines have low methodological quality, adversely affecting their credibility, validity, and applicability. Urgent corrective strategies are presented for consideration.
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- Kamal Kumar Singhal
- Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India
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The ecosystem of health decision making: from fragmentation to synergy. THE LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 7:e378-e390. [DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00057-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Nasir ZH, Mertz D, Nieuwlaat R, Santesso N, Lotfi T, Motilall A, Moja L, Mbuagbaw L, Klugar M, Turgeon AF, Mathew JL, Canelo-Aybar C, Pottie K, Dewidar O, Langendam MW, Iorio A, Vist GE, Meerpohl JJ, Flottorp S, Kredo T, Piggott T, Mathews M, Qaseem A, Chu DK, Tugwell P, Klugarová J, Nelson H, Hussein H, Suvada J, Neumann I, Schünemann HJ. An evaluation of the eCOVID19 Recommendation Map identified diverging Clinical and Public Health guidance. J Clin Epidemiol 2022; 147:83-94. [PMID: 35339639 PMCID: PMC8942881 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2021] [Revised: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Objectives To describe divergence between actionable statements issued by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) guideline developers cataloged on the “COVID-19 Recommendations and Gateway to Contextualization” platform. Study Design and Setting We defined divergence as at least two comparable actionable statements with different explicit judgments of strength, direction, or subgroup consideration of the population or intervention. We applied a content analysis to compare guideline development methods for a sample of diverging statements and to evaluate factors associated with divergence. Results Of the 138 guidelines evaluated, 85 (62%) contained at least one statement that diverged from another guideline. We identified 223 diverging statements in these 85 guidelines. We grouped statements into 66 clusters. Each cluster addressed the same population, intervention, and comparator group or just similar interventions. Clinical practice statements were more likely to diverge in an explicit judgment of strength or direction compared to public health statements. Statements were more likely to diverge in strength than direction. The date of publication, used evidence, interpretation of evidence, and contextualization considerations were associated with divergence. Conclusion More than half of the assessed guidelines issued at least one diverging statement. This study helps in understanding the types of differences between guidelines issuing comparable statements and factors associated with their divergence.
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- Zil H Nasir
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Italy
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Biostatistics Unit/The Research Institute, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Center of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Center), Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Palackého náměstí 4, 128 01 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City (QC), Canada; Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit, CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, Québec City (QC), Canada
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- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre - Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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- Bruyere Research Institute, Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Western University, London ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; Bruyere Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
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- Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Meibergdreef 9, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P. O. Box 222 Skøyen, 0213 Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, P. O. Box 222 Skøyen, 0213 Oslo, Norway; University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1130 Blindern 0318, Oslo, Norway
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; Bruyere Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON, K1H 8M5, Canada
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- Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Center of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Center), Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Palackého náměstí 4, 128 01 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, 18 Barrie Street, Kingston ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Departments of Science and International Studies, St. Elizabeth University of Public Health and Social Science, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Canada; Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany; Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
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Falavigna M, Belli KC, Barbosa AN, Zavascki AP, Nastri ACDSS, Santana CM, Stein C, Gräf DD, Cadegiani FA, Guimarães HP, Monteiro JT, Ferreira JC, de Azevedo LCP, Magri MMC, Sobreira ML, Dias MBGDS, de Oliveira MS, Corradi MDFDB, Rosa R, Heinzelmann RS, da Silva RM, Junior RB, Cimerman S, Colpani V, Veiga VC, de Carvalho CRR. Brazilian guidelines for the treatment of outpatients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. A joint guideline of the Brazilian Association of Emergency Medicine (ABRAMEDE), Brazilian Medical Association (AMB), Brazilian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (SBACV), Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SBGG), Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases (SBI), Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine (SBFMC), and Brazilian Thoracic Society (SBPT). Braz J Infect Dis 2022; 26:102347. [PMID: 35341739 PMCID: PMC8926872 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2022.102347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Amer YS, Shaiba LA, Hadid A, Anabrees J, Almehery A, AAssiri M, Alnemri A, Darwish ARA, Baqawi B, Aboshaiqah A, Hneiny L, Almaghrabi RH, El-Malky AM, Al-Dajani NM. Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines for neonatal sepsis using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II Instrument: A systematic review of neonatal guidelines. Front Pediatr 2022; 10:891572. [PMID: 36052365 PMCID: PMC9424847 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.891572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Neonatal sepsis (NS) continues to be a critical healthcare priority for the coming decades worldwide. The aim of this study was to critically appraise the quality of recent clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for neonatal sepsis and to summarize and compare their recommendations. METHODS This study involves a systematic review of CPGs. We identified clinical questions and eligibility criteria and searched and screened for CPGs using bibliographic and CPG databases and professional societies. Each included CPG was assessed by four independent appraisers using the Appraisal of Guidelines for REsearch & Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument. We summarized the recommendations in a comparison practical table. The systematic review was drafted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. Its protocol was registered in the PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (ID: CRD42021258732). RESULTS Our search retrieved 4,432 citations; of which five CPGs were eligible and appraised: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP 2018) (35 and 34 weeks); Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS 2017); National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE 2021); and Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Services (QH 2020). Among these, the overall assessment of two evidence-based CPGs scored > 70% (NICE and QH), which was consistent with their higher scores in the six domains of the AGREE II instrument. In domain 3 (rigor of development), NICE and QH scored 99 and 60%, respectively. In domain 5 (applicability), they scored 96 and 74%, respectively, and in domain 6 (editorial independence), they scored 90 and 71%, respectively. CONCLUSION The methodological quality of the NICE CPG was superior followed by the QH CPG with relevant recommendations for use in practice. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021258732, PROSPERO (CRD42021258732).
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- Yasser S Amer
- Pediatrics Department, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality Research Unit, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Alexandria Center for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.,Adaptation Working Group, Guidelines International Network, Perth, Scotland
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- Pediatrics Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pediatrics Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pediatrics Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Saudi Neonatology Society (SNS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Neonatology Department, King Abdulaziz Hospital, Ministry of Health, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Pediatrics Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Saudi Neonatology Society (SNS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Clinical Pharmacy Department, Pharmacy Services, Second Health Cluster in Central Region, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Pharmacy Department, King Fahad Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, King Fahad Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Saab Medical Library, University Libraries, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.,Wegner Health Sciences Library, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Morbidity and Mortality Unit, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI), Academy of Scientific Research, Cairo, Egypt
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Falavigna M, Stein C, do Amaral JLG, de Azevedo LCP, Belli KC, Colpani V, da Cunha CA, Dal-Pizzol F, Dias MBS, Ferreira JC, Freitas APDR, Gräf DD, Guimarães HP, Lobo SMA, Monteiro JT, Nunes MS, de Oliveira MS, Prado CCL, Santos VCC, da Silva RM, Sobreira ML, Veiga VC, Vidal ÁT, Xavier RM, Zavascki AP, Machado FR, de Carvalho CRR. Brazilian Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19: Joint guideline of Associação Brasileira de Medicina de Emergência, Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira, Associação Médica Brasileira, Sociedade Brasileira de Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia, Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia. Rev Bras Ter Intensiva 2022; 34:1-12. [PMID: 35674525 PMCID: PMC9345589 DOI: 10.5935/0103-507x.20220001-pt] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Several therapies are being used or proposed for COVID-19, and many lack appropriate evaluations of their effectiveness and safety. The purpose of this document is to develop recommendations to support decisions regarding the pharmacological treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Brazil. METHODS A group of 27 experts, including representatives of the Ministry of Health and methodologists, created this guideline. The method used for the rapid development of guidelines was based on the adoption and/or adaptation of existing international guidelines (GRADE ADOLOPMENT) and supported by the e-COVID-19 RecMap platform. The quality of the evidence and the preparation of the recommendations followed the GRADE method. RESULTS Sixteen recommendations were generated. They include strong recommendations for the use of corticosteroids in patients using supplemental oxygen, the use of anticoagulants at prophylactic doses to prevent thromboembolism and the nonuse of antibiotics in patients without suspected bacterial infection. It was not possible to make a recommendation regarding the use of tocilizumab in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 using oxygen due to uncertainties regarding the availability of and access to the drug. Strong recommendations against the use of hydroxychloroquine, convalescent plasma, colchicine, lopinavir + ritonavir and antibiotics in patients without suspected bacterial infection and also conditional recommendations against the use of casirivimab + imdevimab, ivermectin and rendesivir were made. CONCLUSION To date, few therapies have proven effective in the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and only corticosteroids and prophylaxis for thromboembolism are recommended. Several drugs were considered ineffective and should not be used to provide the best treatment according to the principles of evidence-based medicine and promote economical resource use.
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- Maicon Falavigna
- Institute for the Evaluation of Health Technology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
- Hospital Moinhos de Vento - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
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- Hospital Moinhos de Vento - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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- Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Universidade Federal do Paraná - Curitiba (PR), Brazil
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- Experimental Pathophysiology Laboratory, Posgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense - Criciúma (SC), Brazil
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- Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Heart Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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- Associação Brasileira de Medicina de Emergência - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Hospital de Pronto-Socorro de Porto Alegre - Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto - São José do Rio Preto (SP), Brazil
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Empresa Brasileira de Serviços Hospitalares - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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- Department of Management and Incorporation of Technologies and Innovation in Health, Secretaria de Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Insumos Estratégicos em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde - Brasília (DF), Brazil
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- Department of Management and Incorporation of Technologies and Innovation in Health, Secretaria de Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Insumos Estratégicos em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde - Brasília (DF), Brazil
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- Sociedade Brasileira de Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Botucatu (SP), Brazil
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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- Department of Management and Incorporation of Technologies and Innovation in Health, Secretaria de Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Insumos Estratégicos em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde - Brasília (DF), Brazil
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- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
- Hospital São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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Tugwell P, Tovey D. Clinical epidemiology challenges when involving patients. J Clin Epidemiol 2022; 141:A5-A6. [PMID: 35341581 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Matthews M, Lotfi T, Santesso N, Loeb M, Mertz D, Chagla Z, Hajizadeh A, Piggott T, Dietl B, Schünemann HJ. Comparing the usability of the World Health Organization's conventional tuberculosis guidelines to the eTB recommendations map: A two-arm superiority randomised controlled trial. PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 2:e0001166. [PMID: 36962671 PMCID: PMC10021182 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 03/26/2023]
Abstract
Best practices for the dissemination of global health guidelines has not undergone rigorous research. We used a new approach to digitizing World Health Organization (WHO) global tuberculosis guideline recommendations (eTB RecMap) and compared its usability to the conventional method of accessing TB recommendations using the WHO website. We conducted a two-arm superiority randomised controlled trial using a survey among global stakeholders who were past or planned future users of TB guidelines, recommendations, or policy advice. We assigned participants randomly (1:1) to complete an activity using the WHO eTB RecMap or the conventional website. The primary outcome was the accessibility of information and secondary outcomes understanding, satisfaction, and preference for one of the two formats. Between February 26 and August 29, 2021, we received 478 responses from stakeholders, of whom 244 (122 per group) were eligible and provided analysable results. Participants rated the eTB RecMap as more accessible, on average, when compared to the conventional website (on a seven-point scale, the mean difference {MD} was 0.9; 95% confidence interval {CI}: 0.6, 1.2; p < 0.001) and were more likely to correctly answer understanding questions. This is the first trial comparing digitized dissemination formats of health guideline recommendations. Stakeholders rated the WHO eTB RecMap as more accessible than the conventional WHO website for the tested recommendations. They also understood presented information better. The findings support better usability of TB information through the eTB RecMap and contribute to the effort to end the TB epidemic. Trial registration: This trial was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04745897) on February 9, 2021.
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- Micayla Matthews
- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Primary Care, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Evidence Prime Incorporated, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milano, Italy
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Florez ID, Amer YS, McCaul M, Lavis JN, Brouwers M. Guidelines developed under pressure. The case of the COVID-19 low-quality "rapid" guidelines and potential solutions. J Clin Epidemiol 2021; 142:194-199. [PMID: 34780983 PMCID: PMC8590473 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Ivan D Florez
- Department of Pediatrics, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 67 # 53-108, 050001, Medellin, Colombia; School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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- Pediatrics Department, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Clinical Practice Guidelines Unit, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Alexandria Center for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines, Alexandria University Medical Council, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
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- Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
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- McMaster Health Forum and Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, 3H28, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada; Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Lotfi T, Hajizadeh A, Moja L, Akl EA, Piggott T, Kredo T, Langendam MW, Iorio A, Klugar M, Klugarová J, Neumann I, Wiercioch W, Leontiadis GI, Mbuagbaw L, Turgeon AF, Meerpohl J, Stevens A, Brozek J, Santesso N, Pottie K, Dewidar O, Flottorp SA, Karpusheff J, Saz-Parkinson Z, Rojas MX, Parmelli E, Chu DK, Tugwell P, Welch V, Avey MT, Brignardello-Petersen R, Mathew JL, Munn Z, Nieuwlaat R, Ford N, Qaseem A, Askie LM, Schünemann HJ. A taxonomy and framework for identifying and developing actionable statements in guidelines suggests avoiding informal recommendations. J Clin Epidemiol 2021; 141:161-171. [PMID: 34562579 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To propose a taxonomy and framework that identifies and presents actionable statements in guidelines. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We took an iterative approach reviewing case studies of guidelines produced by the World Health Organization and the American Society of Hematology to develop an initial conceptual framework. We then tested it using randomly selected recommendations from published guidelines addressing COVID-19 from different organizations, evaluated its results, and refined it before retesting. The urgency and availability of evidence for development of these recommendations varied. We consulted with experts in research methodology and guideline developers to improve the final framework. RESULTS The resulting taxonomy and framework distinguishes five types of actional statements: formal recommendations; research recommendations; good practice statements; implementation considerations, tools and tips; and informal recommendations. These statements should respond to a priori established criteria and require a clear structure and recognizable presentation in a guideline. Most importantly, this framework identifies informal recommendations that differ from formal recommendations by how they consider evidence and in their development process. CONCLUSION The identification, standardization and explicit labelling of actionable statements according to the framework may support guideline developers to create actionable statements with clear intent, avoid informal recommendations and improve their understanding and implementation by users.
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- Tamara Lotfi
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Product Policy and Standards, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada
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- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada
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- The Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre); Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- The Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech CEBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre); Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Biostatistics Unit/The Research Institute, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton ,ON, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City ,QC, Canada; Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit, CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, Québec City ,QC, Canada
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- Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa; Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa; Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias. Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau)
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa; Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa; Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
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- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Joanna Briggs Institute Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences The University of Adelaide, Australia
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada
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- Department of HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Quality Assurance of Norms and Standards Department, Science Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada and GRADE Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton ,ON, Canada; Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
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Low-value health care in the COVID-19 pandemic. LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH 2021; 9:e1214. [PMID: 34416211 PMCID: PMC8372498 DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(21)00354-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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