• GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. 

      Guyatt, Gordon H; Oxman, Andrew David; Vist, Gunn Elisabeth; Kunz, Regina; Falck-Ytter, Yngve; Alonso-Coello, Pablo; Schünemann, Holger J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-04-26)
    • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. 

      Atkins, David; Best, Dana; Briss, Peter A; Eccles, Martin; Falck-Ytter, Yngve; Flottorp, Signe; Guyatt, Gordon H; Harbour, Robin T; Haugh, Margaret C; Henry, David; Hill, Suzanne; Jaeschke, Roman; Leng, Gillian; Liberati, Alessandro; Magrini, Nicola; Mason, James; Middleton, Philippa; Mrukowicz, Jacek; O'Connell, Dianne; Oxman, Andrew David; Phillips, Bob; Schünemann, Holger J; Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres; Varonen, Helena; Vist, Gunn Elisabeth; Williams, John W; Zaza, Stephanie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-06-19)
      Users of clinical practice guidelines and other recommendations need to know how much confidence they can place in the recommendations. Systematic and explicit methods of making judgments can reduce errors and improve ...
    • Symbols were superior to numbers for presenting strength of recommendations to health care consumers: a randomized trial. 

      Akl, Elie A; Maroun, Nancy; Guyatt, Gordon; Oxman, Andrew David; Alonso-Coello, Pablo; Vist, Gunn Elisabeth; Devereaux, P J; Montori, Victor M; Schünemann, Holger J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-12)
      OBJECTIVE: To compare health care consumers' understanding, evaluations, and preferences for symbols vs. numbers and letters for the representation of strength of recommendations (SOR) and quality of evidence (QOE). STUDY ...
    • Systematic review to determine whether participation in a trial influences outcome. 

      Vist, Gunn Elisabeth; Hagen, Kåre Birger; Devereaux, P J; Bryant, Dianne; Kristoffersen, Doris Tove; Oxman, Andrew David (Journal article, 2005-05-21)
      OBJECTIVE: To systematically compare the outcomes of participants in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with those in comparable non-participants who received the same or similar treatment. DATA SOURCES: Bibliographic ...
    • 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 ...