• 1. Liver Transplantation Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, P.R.China;
  • 2. National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, P.R.China;
  • 3. School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, P.R.China;
ZHU Zhijun, Email: zhu-zhijun@outlook.com
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ObjectivesTo assess the quality of clinical practice guidelines for transplantation in 2017. MethodsPubMed, NICE, NGC, NCCN, SIGN, CMA Infobase and GIN databases were searched online to collect guidelines for transplantation published in 2017. Guidelines were then assessed by using the AGREE Ⅱ instrument. ResultsA total of 10 guidelines were included. The result of assessments by the AGREE Ⅱ instrument showed a clear discrepancy among domains (P=0.001). Satisfactory scores were found in domains of " scope and purpose”, " clarity of presentation” and " overall score”, where the average scores were 90.8% (95%CI 83.5% to 98.1%), 82.5% (95%CI 72.7% to 92.3%) and 75.6% (95%CI 66.6% to 84.6%), respectively. Low scores were found in domains of " stakeholder involvement” and " applicability”, in which a score of 40.0% (95%CI 32.4% to 47.6%) and a score of 27.8% (95%CI 11.2% to 44.5%) were achieved, respectively. ConclusionsThere is a clear discrepancy among domains of global clinical practice guidelines for transplantation in 2017. Guidelines in this field should be improved in " stakeholder involvement” and " applicability”.

Citation: ZHU Zhijun, SUN Liying, ZHANG Haiming, SHI Yuexian. Quality assessment of global clinical practice guidelines for transplantation in 2017. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2018, 18(9): 964-968. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201805093 Copy

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