• 1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200020, P.R.China;
  • 2. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Ruijin Rehabilitation Hospital, Shanghai, 200011, P.R.China;
XIE Qing, Email: ruijin_xq@163.com
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Objectives To evaluate the methodological quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) of Chinese rehabilitation medicine.Methods CBM, VIP, CNKI, WanFang Data and Medlive databases were electronically searched to collect CPGs of Chinese rehabilitation medicine from January 1979 to May 2018. Four reviewers evaluated the methodological quality of the CPGs by AGREE Ⅱ.Results A total of 11 CPGs were included, which involved 5 CPGs on nervous system rehabilitation, 1 CPG on bone and joint system rehabilitation, 1 CPG each on pediatric rehabilitation, internal medicine system rehabilitation, burn rehabilitation, earthquake rehabilitation and rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment criteria respectively. The results of AGREE Ⅱ score showed that the average scores on six domains were 65.3%, 28.0%, 9.3%, 42.1%, 6.3% and 4.0%. There were not any level A (recommended) guidelines. Two guidelines were level B (recommended after being revised). The other nine guidelines were level C (not recommended).Conclusions There are a few rehabilitation CPGs in China and the quality of methodology is low. AGREE's methods and concepts have not been fully used for formulation. The rigor of development, clarity of presentation, applicability and editorial independence of guidelines should be emphasized, so as to produce high level CPGs and improve clinical practice quality in rehabilitation medicine.

Citation: CUI Lijun, BAO Yong, CHEN Xin, ZONG Ya, WANG Pu, XIE Qing. Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines on Chinese rehabilitation medicine. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(6): 723-728. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201806079 Copy

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