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AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care

Melissa C. Brouwers, Michelle E. Kho, George P. Browman, Jako S. Burgers, Francoise Cluzeau, Gene Feder, Béatrice Fervers, Ian D. Graham, Jeremy Grimshaw, Steven E. Hanna, Peter Littlejohns, Julie Makarski and Louise Zitzelsberger
CMAJ December 14, 2010 182 (18) E839-E842; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090449
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vol. 182 no. 18 E839-E842
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https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090449
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20603348
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  • Published online December 13, 2010.

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  1. Melissa C. Brouwers, PhD⇓,
  2. Michelle E. Kho, BHSc(PT) MSc,
  3. George P. Browman, MD MSc,
  4. Jako S. Burgers, MD PhD,
  5. Francoise Cluzeau, PhD,
  6. Gene Feder, MD,
  7. Béatrice Fervers, MD PhD,
  8. Ian D. Graham, PhD,
  9. Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB PhD,
  10. Steven E. Hanna, PhD,
  11. Peter Littlejohns, MD,
  12. Julie Makarski, BSc,
  13. Louise Zitzelsberger, PhD
  14. for the AGREE Next Steps Consortium
  1. From McMaster University (Brouwers, Kho, Hanna, Makarski); the Program in Evidence-based Care, Cancer Care Ontario (Brouwers), Hamilton, Ont.; British Columbia Cancer Agency (Browman), Victoria, BC; the Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO and IQ Healthcare (Burgers), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands; St. George’s University of London (Cluzeau), London, UK; the University of Bristol (Feder), Bristol, UK; Unité Cancer et Environement (Fervers), Université de Lyon – Centre Léon Bérard, Université Lyon 1, EA 4129, Lyon, France; the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Graham), Ottawa, Ont.; the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Grimshaw), Ottawa, Ont.; the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Littlejohns), London, UK; and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (Zitzelsberger), Ottawa, Ont
  1. Correspondence to: Dr. Melissa C. Brouwers, Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Henderson site, G wing, Rm. 207, 711 Concession St., Hamilton ON L8V 1C3; mbrouwer{at}mcmaster.ca

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