Guidelines are essential tools in healthcare decision-making.Trustworthy guidelines inform clinicians not only on the direction(against or in favour)and strength(strong or weak/conditional)of recommendations but also ...Guidelines are essential tools in healthcare decision-making.Trustworthy guidelines inform clinicians not only on the direction(against or in favour)and strength(strong or weak/conditional)of recommendations but also on the certainty of the underlying evidence.Developing trustworthy guidelines requires panellists with clinical and methodological expertise who consider patients’values and preferences.Adherence to trustworthiness standards remains variable;clinicians should,therefore,be able to distinguish trustworthy from untrustworthy guidelines.In this paper,we offer eight domains of disparities between trustworthy evidence-based guidelines and less trustworthy guidelines.展开更多
文摘Guidelines are essential tools in healthcare decision-making.Trustworthy guidelines inform clinicians not only on the direction(against or in favour)and strength(strong or weak/conditional)of recommendations but also on the certainty of the underlying evidence.Developing trustworthy guidelines requires panellists with clinical and methodological expertise who consider patients’values and preferences.Adherence to trustworthiness standards remains variable;clinicians should,therefore,be able to distinguish trustworthy from untrustworthy guidelines.In this paper,we offer eight domains of disparities between trustworthy evidence-based guidelines and less trustworthy guidelines.