Publications about the GRADE approach

Introductory series for clinicians published in the BMJ (2008)

• GRADE: an emerging consensus
• ‍What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?
• Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies
• ‍Going from evidence to recommendations
• Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendations
• Use of GRADE grid to reach decisions when consensus is elusive

Articles with allergy examples published in Allergy (2010)

• Part 1. An overview of the GRADE approach and grading quality of evidence about interventions
• Part 2. The GRADE approach to grading quality of evidence about diagnostic tests and strategies
• Part 3. The GRADE approach to developing recommendations

Detailed description of GRADE for authors of guidelines and systematic reviews published in JCE (2011-2015)

• Introduction: GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables
• Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes
• Rating the quality of evidence
• Rating the quality of evidence: study limitations (risk of bias)
• Rating the quality of evidence: publication bias
• Rating the quality of evidence: imprecision
• Rating the quality of evidence: inconsistency
• Rating the quality of evidence: indirectness
• Rating the quality of evidence
• Considering resource use and rating the quality of economic evidence
• Making an overall rating of confidence in effect estimates for a single outcome and for all outcomes
• Preparing Summary of Findings tables for binary outcomes
• Preparing Summary of Findings tables for continuous outcomes
• Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations
• Going from evidence to recommendations: determinants of a recommendation’s direction and strength

Reproducibility of the GRADE approach (2013)

• The GRADE approach is reproducible in assessing the quality of evidence of quantitative evidence syntheses

GRADE Handbook

GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist

Guidelines developed with GRADEpro GDT

World Health Organization

• WHO Interim policy guidance on the use of bedaquiline in the treatment of MDR-TB (2014)
• WHO Interim policy guidance on the use of delamanid in the treatment of MDR-TB (2014)
• World Health Organization Guidelines: Treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2–3 and adenocarcinoma in situ: cryotherapy, large loop excision of the transformation zone, and cold knife conization (2014)
• World Health Organization Guidelines: Guidelines for screening and treatment of precancerous lesions for cervical cancer prevention (2013)
• World Health Organization Guidelines: Use of cryotherapy for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (2012)
• World Health Organization Guidelines: Use of cryotherapy for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (2011)
• Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - 2011 update

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma

• Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines 2010

American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society

• An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Update of the 2011 Clinical Practice Guideline (2015)
• International European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma, 2014
• An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Guideline: Treatment of IPF (2015)
  Individual parts of the guideline:
  • Executive Summary
  • Full-length version
  • Evidence tables
  • Evidence-to-decision tables

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

• Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring. Task force of the European Society Intensive Care Medicine (2014)
• Consensus statement of the ESICM task force on colloid volume therapy in critically ill patients (2012)

World Allergy Organization

• World Allergy Organization-McMaster University Guidelines for Allergic Disease Prevention (GLAD-P): Probiotics (2015)
• World Allergy Organization (WAO) Cow’s Milk Allergy guidelines 2010

Osteoporosis Canada

• Recommendations for preventing fracture in long-term care for the Scientific Advisory Council of Osteoporosis Canada (2015)

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Committee

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012

The Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (2013)

Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia (2014/2015)

• Clinical Practice Guideline on the Diagnosis of Suspected First Deep Vein Thrombosis of Lower Extremity
• Clinical Practice Guideline on the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Stroke
• Clinical Practice Guideline on the Screening and Treatment of Precancerous Lesions for Cervical Cancer Prevention
• Clinical Practice Guideline on the Role of Vitamin D, Calcium, and Exercise in Fracture Prevention in Elderly
• Clinical Practice Guideline on the Timing the Initiation of Dialysis
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Allergic Rhinitis in Asthma
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Migraine Headache Diagnosis And Management
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening for colorectal cancer
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of Thalassemia – Iron chelationtherapy, Bisphosphonates and Zinc supplementation
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of Sickle Cell Disease
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of breast lump and primary breast cancer
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Prophylaxis of VTE in Medical Patients and Long Distance Travelers
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Prevention of VTE in surgical patients
• Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of Overweight and Obese Adults

American College of Rheumatology

• 2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

American College of Chest Physicians

• Methodology for the Development of Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis Guidelines (2012)