Scope and purpose | | |
| Intent | + |
| Benefits or outcomes | ++ |
| People to whom this applies | +++ |
Stakeholder involvement | | |
| Name, discipline, institution, role in guideline preparation | ++ |
| Strategy to obtain target population views and incorporate into recommendations | ++ |
| Intended audience and how they might use the guideline | ++ |
Rigour of development | | |
| Details of how searches were done | ++ |
| Target population, study design, interventions, comparisons, outcomes | +++ |
| Study designs, methods, and limitations; relevance of outcomes; consistency of results; size of benefit vs harms | ++++ |
| Development process, outcome of process (eg, voting) | + |
| Supporting data on benefits and harms; reporting of trade-offs | +++ |
| How the group used evidence to inform recommendations | ++++ |
| Description of external reviewers and methods used to obtain their ideas; how reviewers’ opinions informed the guideline | ++ |
| Criteria or time frame to do update | + |
Clarity of presentation | | |
| Recommended action purpose, relevant populations; caveats about whom it does not apply to; degree of uncertainty about options | +++ |
| Description of options and in what situation each should be used | +++ |
| Summary box, flow chart, or algorithm | ++ |
Applicability | | |
| What was considered; methods to obtain; facilitators and barriers; how this affected recommendations | ++ |
| Additional supporting materials (eg, summary documents, manuals) | + |
| Types of cost information; methods of obtaining, costs, and description | + |
| How to assess effects and adherence to recommendations | 0 |
Editorial independence | | |
| Source of funding and whether it influenced content | ++++ |
| Types of interests considered and how they were sought; description of competing interests and how they influenced the guideline process | ++++ |