Journal article
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: IX. A Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations
Abstract
THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE of applied health research is to improve health care. Summarizing the literature to adduce recommendations for clinical practice is an important part of the process. Recently, the health sciences community has reduced the bias and imprecision of traditional literature summaries and their associated recommendations through the development of rigorous criteria for both literature overviews1-3 and practice guidelines.4,5 Even …
Authors
Guyatt GH; Sackett DL; Sinclair JC; Hayward R; Cook DJ; Cook RJ; Bass E; Gerstein H; Haynes B; Holbrook A
Journal
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 274, No. 22, pp. 1800–1804
Publisher
American Medical Association (AMA)
Publication Date
December 13, 1995
DOI
10.1001/jama.1995.03530220066035
ISSN
0098-7484