• Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: critical appraisal of existing approaches The GRADE Working Group. 

      Atkins, David; Eccles, Martin; Flottorp, Signe; Guyatt, Gordon H; Henry, David; Hill, Suzanne; Liberati, Alessandro; O'Connell, Dianne; Oxman, Andrew David; Phillips, Bob; Schünemann, Holger; Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres; Vist, Gunn Elisabeth; Williams, John W (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-12-22)
      BACKGROUND: A number of approaches have been used to grade levels of evidence and the strength of recommendations. The use of many different approaches detracts from one of the main reasons for having explicit approaches: ...
    • Transparent development of the WHO rapid advice guidelines. 

      Schünemann, Holger J; Hill, Suzanne R; Kakad, Meetali; Vist, Gunn Elisabeth; Bellamy, Richard; Stockman, Lauren; Wisløff, Torbjørn Fosen; Del Mar, Chris; Hayden, Frederick; Uyeki, Timothy M; Farrar, Jeremy; Yazdanpanah, Yazdan; Zucker, Howard; Beigel, John; Chotpitayasunondh, Tawee; Hien, Tran Tinh; Ozbay, Bülent; Sugaya, Norio; Oxman, Andrew David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-05)
      Emerging health problems require rapid advice. We describe the development and pilot testing of a systematic, transparent approach used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop rapid advice guidelines in response ...