[GRADE guidelines: 14. Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations]
- PMID: 25444300
- DOI: 10.1016/j.zefq.2014.08.003
[GRADE guidelines: 14. Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations]
Abstract
This article describes the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to classifying the direction and strength of recommendations. The strength of a recommendation, separated into strong and weak, is defined as the extent to which one can be confident that the desirable effects of an intervention outweigh its undesirable effects. Alternative terms for a weak recommendation include conditional, discretionary, or qualified. The strength of a recommendation has specific implications for patients, the public, clinicians, and policy makers. Occasionally, guideline developers may choose to make "only-in-research" recommendations. Although panels may choose not to make recommendations, this choice leaves those looking for answers from guidelines without the guidance they are seeking. GRADE therefore encourages panels to, wherever possible, offer recommendations.
Keywords: Einstufung von Evidenz; Empfehlungen; GRADE; Leitlinienentwicklung; Qualität der Evidenz; Stärke der Evidenz; grading; guideline development; quality of evidence; recommendations; strength of evidence.
Copyright © 2014. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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