Abstract
IntroductionRobust, clearly reported clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are essential for evidence-based clinical practice. The Reporting Items for practice Guidelines in HealThcare (RIGHT) Statement and Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and...
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Robust, clearly reported clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are essential for evidence-based clinical practice
Guidelines scored highly on the domains 4 and 6, but lowest on domain 2. In this investigation we found that National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) CPGs demonstrate key strengths and weaknesses with respect to the reporting of key items essential to CPGs
We identified 49 NCCN CPGs for the treatment of cancer by site
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Clearly reported clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are essential for evidence-based clinical practice. The Institute of Medicine recognizes CPGs as necessary reference material for physicians seeking to optimize patient care.[1] CPGs are capable of increasing the quality of patient care and improving patient outcomes[2], but the adoption of low-quality guidelines may result in widespread use of ineffective treatments, inefficient practices, and harm to patients[3,4]. Other information description of health problem, aims, population, target users, and guideline developers (items 5-9b) key questions, outcomes, use of systematic reviews, approach to assess certainty of evidence (items 10a-12) clarity and precision of recommendations, patient preferences, cost, other factors contributing to recommendations (items 13a-15) external review and quality assurance (items 16-17)
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