GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

GH Guyatt, AD Oxman, GE Vist, R Kunz, Y Falck-Ytter… - Bmj, 2008 - bmj.com
Gunn E Vist, researcher2, … The members of the GRADE Working Group are Phil
Alderson, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Jeff Andrews, David Atkins, Hilda Bastian, Hans de Beer …

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

GH Guyatt, AD Oxman, R Kunz, GE Vist, Y Falck-Ytter… - Bmj, 2008 - bmj.com
Gunn E Vist, researcher2, … The members of the GRADE Working Group are Phil
Alderson, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Jeff Andrews, David Atkins, Hilda Bastian, Hans de Beer …

[HTML][HTML] The mental health impact of the covid-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, and interventions to help them: A rapid systematic review

…, S Stroobants, S Van de Velde, GE Vist - Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
The covid-19 pandemic has heavily burdened healthcare systems throughout the world. We
performed a rapid systematic review to identify, assess and summarize research on the …

GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence

…, AD Oxman, R Kunz, J Brozek, GE Vist… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
This article introduces the approach of GRADE to rating quality of evidence. GRADE specifies
four categories—high, moderate, low, and very low—that are applied to a body of evidence…

GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

G Guyatt, AD Oxman, EA Akl, R Kunz, G Vist… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
This article is the first of a series providing guidance for use of the Grading of Recommendations
Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system of rating quality of …

Going from evidence to recommendations

GH Guyatt, AD Oxman, R Kunz, Y Falck-Ytter, GE Vist… - Bmj, 2008 - bmj.com
Gunn E Vist, researcher2, … The members of the GRADE Working Group are Phil
Alderson, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Jeff Andrews, David Atkins, Hilda Bastian, Hans de Beer …

Interpreting results and drawing conclusions

HJ Schünemann, GE Vist, JPT Higgins… - … systematic reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter addresses first one of the key aspects of interpreting findings that is also
fundamental in completing a ‘Summary of findings’ table: the certainty of evidence related to each …

GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)

GH Guyatt, AD Oxman, G Vist, R Kunz, J Brozek… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
In the GRADE approach, randomized trials start as high-quality evidence and observational
studies as low-quality evidence, but both can be rated down if most of the relevant evidence …

GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence—imprecision

…, VM Montori, B Freyschuss, G Vist… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
GRADE suggests that examination of 95% confidence intervals (CIs) provides the optimal
primary approach to decisions regarding imprecision. For practice guidelines, rating down the …

GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence—inconsistency

…, R Jaeschke, EA Akl, S Norris, G Vist… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
This article deals with inconsistency of relative (rather than absolute) treatment effects in
binary/dichotomous outcomes. A body of evidence is not rated up in quality if studies yield …