Use of evidence in WHO recommendations Quigley, Eamonn MM; Fried, Michael; Krabshuis, Justus H
The Lancet (British edition),
09/2007, Letnik:
370, Številka:
9590
Journal Article
The process for creating and updating this guideline and its counterpart, the Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use,3 has been described in detail.4,5 Briefly, systematic reviews ...with graded quality of evidence are used by an expert working group (clinical and research experts and those who will have to live with the guidelines, such as family planning providers in low-income countries) to develop recommendations. JNL is President of the PAHO/WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research and a member of the Scientific andTechnical Advisory Committee of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, which is co-sponsored by and housed within WHO. * Andrew D Oxman, John N Lavis, Atle Fretheim oxman@online.no Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, PO Box 7004, St Olavs plass, N-0130 Oslo, Norway 1 Oxman AD, Fretheim A, Schünemann HJ.
