Improving methods of clinical practice guidelines: From guidelines to pathways to fast‐and‐frugal trees and decision analysis to develop individualised patient care

BACKGROUND: Current methods for developing clinical practice guidelines have several limitations: they are characterised by the "black box" operation-a process with defined inputs and outputs but an incomplete understanding of its internal workings; they have "the integration problem"-a lack of framework for explicitly integrating factors such as patient preferences and trade-offs between benefits and harms; they generate one recommendation at …