What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians? Journal Articles

abstract

• Guideline developers use a bewildering variety of systems to rate the quality of the evidence underlying their recommendations. Some are facile, some confused, and others sophisticated but complex

authors

• Guyatt, Gordon
• Oxman, Andrew D
• Kunz, Regina
• Vist, Gunn E
• Falck-Ytter, Yngve
• Schunemann, Holger

status

• published 

publication date

• May 3, 2008

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• 1117 Public Health and Health Services (FoR)
• Evidence-Based Medicine (MeSH)
• General & Internal Medicine (Science Metrix)
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care (MeSH)
• Practice Guidelines as Topic (MeSH)
• Publication Bias (MeSH)
• Quality Assurance, Health Care (MeSH)
• Quality Indicators, Health Care (MeSH)
• Reproducibility of Results (MeSH)
• Research Design (MeSH)

published in

• The BMJ  Journal

keywords

• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care
• Practice Guidelines as Topic
• Publication Bias
• Quality Assurance, Health Care
• Quality Indicators, Health Care
• Reproducibility of Results
• Research Design

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1136/bmj.39490.551019.be

start page

• 995

end page

• 998

volume

• 336

issue

• 7651