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W1– Assessing the evidence for diagnostic imaging guidelines: Going beyond accuracy
Martin H. Reed
page 1
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W3– A new clinical appropriateness tool for practice guidelines: Item generation and refinement
Melissa C. Brouwers, Julie Makarski, Lisa D. Durocher
pages 1-2
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W5– Critical appraisal instruments for (methodological) search filters for efficient information retrieval for guideline topics
Rikie Deurenberg, Kitty Rosenbrand, Marjo Poth, Leena Lodenius, Lynda Ayiku
page 3
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W7– Developing dynamic tobacco control guidelines in Canada
Peter Selby, Jess Rogers, Katie Hunter, Tamar Meyer, Janet Ngo
page 4
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W9– A quality-driven, pragmatic approach to crafting guideline action statements and evidence profiles
Richard Rosenfeld, Richard Shiffman
pages 5-6
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W11– Opportunity for guideline developers, implementers, and end users to work together to improve guideline implementation
Susan M. Phillips, Susan Deborah Huckson, Ian D. Graham
pages 6-7
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W13– Primary prevention in primary care: Avoid recreating the wheel
Jess Rogers, Kelly Lang-Robertson, Stephanie Bell, Eva Grunfeld, Donna Manca, Denise Campbell-Scherer
pages 7-8
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W15– Key measure attributes: Using the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Template of Measure Attributes to select measures
Mark J. Monteforte, Melanie M. Swan, Vivian H. Coates, Mary P. Nix
pages 8-9
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S2– Combining GRADE, patient reported outcomes, and costs in the NICE Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) Guideline
Elisabetta Fenu, Clare N. Jones, David Wonderling, Lee-Yee Chong, Jennifer Hill
pages 10-11
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S4– Diagnosis: Interpreting evidence in the absence of a reference standard—two case studies from national guidelines
Alfred W. Sackeyfio, Faisal Siddiqui, Beth Shaw, Abitha Senthinathan
pages 11-12
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S6– Validation and modification of the Graphical Appraisal Tool for Epidemiology (GATE) for appraising studies in evidence-based guideline development
Anita Fitzgerald, Jessica Berentson-Shaw
pages 12-13
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S8– Adopting a realist review approach to conceptualizing the relationship between the perceived characteristics of clinical practice guidelines and their uptake
Onil Bhattacharyya, Elizabeth Estey, Monika Kastner, Sharon Straus, Jeremy Grimshaw, Merrick Zwarenstein, Andreas Laupacis, Ian Graham
pages 13-14
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S10– GRADE: Presentation of evidence profiles in clinical guidelines
Toni Py Tan, Faisal Siddiqui, Judith Thornton
pages 14-15
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S12– Rx for Change: Changing professional behavior–an updated overview of systematic reviews
Alain D. Mayhew, Jeremy Grimshaw, Julia Worswick
page 16
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S14– Using the GRADE approach to develop diagnostic guidelines in allergic disease: The World Allergy Organization's Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow Milk Allergy (DRACMA) Guidelines
Airton Tetelbom Stein, Alessandro Fiocchi, Luigi Terracciano, Jan Brozek, Jonathan Hsu, Holger Schunemann, Julia Kreis, Enrico Compalat
page 17
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S17– Conflicts of interest–What to do when things go wrong: A case study
Rosina M. Ullman, Rupert Franklin
pages 18-19
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S19– Gender analysis of clinical practice guidelines for depression from four European countries: Austria, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
Sanna Lönnfors, Birgit Babitsch, Susanne Weinbrenner
pages 19-20
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S21– Implementing GRADE in an established national guideline program
Robin T. Harbour, Jennifer Layden, Alex Sanchez-Vivar, Heather Murdoch, Christopher Redman, Juliet Brown
pages 20-21
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S23– An experience using AGREE
Mohd Aminuddin Mohd. Yusof, Rugayah Bakri, Roza Sarimin, Mariammah Krishnasamy, Loong Ah Moi, Sin Lian Thye
pages 21-22
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S25– Ethical aspects in CPGs: Explicit or implicit
Radim Licenik, Arnolda P. Nauta, Martin Faix, Katerina Ivanova
page 23
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S27– A model for an international collaboration across organizations for developing clinical practice guidelines
Holger J. Schunemann
page 24
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S29– Attitudes of guideline development groups to use of GRADE in evidence evaluation and development of recommendations
Judith Thornton, Tarang Sharma, Victoria Kelly, Toni Tan, Jonathan Nyong, Faisal Siddiqui, Lynda Ayiku
page 25
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S31– Balance@Work: A combined guideline and research project on prevention of weight gain among employees
Carel Hulshof, Lisanne Verweij, Karin Proper, Andre Weel, Willem van Mechelen
pages 26-27
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S33– Development and institutionalization of Disease Management Guidelines in Germany
Thomas Langer, Susanne Weinbrenner, Ina Kopp, Guenter Ollenschlaeger
pages 27-28
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S35– Elaboration of a topic prioritization instrument for the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) in Colombia
Giancarlo Buitrago, Ricardo Sanchez, Felipe Zamora Rangel, Licet Villamizar, Daniel Anzola, Monica Patricia Ballesteros
pages 28-29
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S37– GRADE imprecision Criteria: Interpretation and impact on the NICE Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men Guideline
Lee-Yee Chong, Clare Jones, Kate Homer, Elisabetta Fenu, Jennifer Hill
page 30
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S39– How mixed treatment comparisons can aid decision making in guidelines with limited or poor-quality evidence
Katrina L. Sparrow, Laura Sawyer, Vanessa Nunes, Norma O'Flynn
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S41– Just finished developing a guideline; how did we do? A process evaluation
Christa Harstall, Paul Taenzer, Nancy Zuck, Carmen Moga, Donna Angus, Ann Scott
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