International Diabetes Federation document concerning postmeal glycemic control: assessment of quality of clinical practice guidelines using AGREE instrument.

Clinical practice guidelines constitute one of the most important sources of information and education for physicians. Therefore, establishing rules to develop and appraise such guidelines properly is of increasing importance. This task is served by the AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation) instrument, a questionnaire, which, according to its authors, allows reproducible assessment of guideline quality. The aim of this paper …