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

C. Atkins, David; Eccles, Martin; Flottorp, Signe; Guyatt, Gordon; Henry, David; Hill, Suzanne; Liberati, Alessandro; L. O’Connell, Dianne; D Oxman, Andrew; Phillips, Bob; J. Schünemann, Holger; Tan-Torres Edejer, Tessa; Elisabeth Vist, Gunn; W Williams, John; GRADE Working Group, The

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-4-38

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

Published in BMC Health Services Research • Dec 22, 2004

Authors:

David C. Atkins

Martin Eccles

Signe Flottorp

Abstract

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: to concisely characterise and communicate this information so that it can easi...

Subject

Grading (engineering)

Critical appraisal

Medicine

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