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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