AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care
Canadian Medical Association JournalPublished 5 July 2010Open access
Melissa Brouwers, Michelle E. Kho, George P. Browman, Jako Burgers, Françoise Cluzeau, Gene Feder
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A strategy was needed to differentiate among guidelines and ensure that those guidelines that vary widely in quality are distinguished.
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AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines, Research and Evaluation), which comprises 23 items and a user's manual, offers refinements of a new way to develop, report and evaluate practice guidelines.
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