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Explicit Priority Setting in Clinical Guidelines
Author(s) -
Peter Langhorne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.107.487231
Subject(s) - medicine , guideline , grading (engineering) , context (archaeology) , evidence based medicine , clinical practice , health care , medline , medical education , alternative medicine , family medicine , pathology , paleontology , economics , biology , economic growth , civil engineering , political science , law , engineering
See related article, pages 2185–2190. The last 15 years have seen great improvements in the development of clinical practice guidelines. There are now rigorous methods for conducting systematic reviews of the relevant scientific evidence and for grading the strength of that evidence.1 However, it is in the next step of the process (generating and implementing recommendations for practice) that difficulties frequently arise. The grade of scientific evidence cannot simply dictate …

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