STRENGTH OF RECOMMENDATION | DESCRIPTION |
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Strongly recommend | A strong recommendation is one that can be supported without qualification by family physicians and other health professionals providing primary care. They can be confident that all of the following conditions apply:
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Recommend | These recommendation have a good basis in current knowledge. Family physicians and other health professionals providing primary care will need more extensive discussion than usual, however, with patients with IDD and caregivers, or consultation with other health professionals, ethicists, or health care administrators before deciding to implement the recommendation |
Top picks by clinicians | These recommendations were selected by 5 clinicians who were section leads (family physicians [I.C., B.H., E.G., K.M.] and a psychiatrist [E.B.]) as the 3 most important per section to promote in any clinical practice or recommendations that pertain to health issues that are most commonly overlooked in patients with IDD |
IDD—intellectual and developmental disabilities.