LIN Jianhao, Email: linjianhao@pkuph.edu.cn
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Objective  To evaluate quality of orthopedic clinical practice guidelines in China by AGREE Ⅱ Instrument. Methods  A systematic search of relevant literature databases (CBM, WanFang Data, VIP and CNKI) was conducted to identify the orthopedic clinical practice guidelines of China published up to October 2016. Guidelines selection and data extraction were independently performed by two authors. AGREEⅡ instrument was used to evaluate the quality of the included guidelines. Intra-class correlation coefficient tests were performed to appraise the uniformity of the overall assessment scores. Results  A total of 54 guidelines for orthopedics were finally included. The mean scores of six domains by AGREE Ⅱ instrument were 60.44%, 21.40%, 5.17%, 22.17%, 6.02% and 0.56%. The overall intra-class correlation coefficient was 0.84. Conclusion  The quality of orthopedic clinical practice guidelines in China was low or moderate in general. The methodology of making guidelines, especially in terms of rigor of development, applicability and editorial independence, should be improved.

Citation: XING Dan, WANG Bin, HOU Yunfei, CHEN Yaolong, LIN Jianhao. Quality assessment of Chinese clinical practice guidelines in orthopedics. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017, 17(3): 347-356. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201612059 Copy

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