McMaster University GRADE Online Learning Modules: Find research work, training materials, and resources to support guideline development.

 

GRADE Book: Review the official publication of the GRADE working group, which is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the GRADE approach.

 

GRADE Book on YouTube: Watch videos on concepts from the GRADE Book.

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GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist:  learn about the topics and items included in the GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist

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GRADE notes 6: Three strategies to determine the clinically important thresholds for outcomes in evidence-based guideline development  study presents three approaches that can be utilized to guide the establishment of three clinically important thresholds in the evaluation of the imprecision and inconsistency domains in certainty assessments of evidence and to inform judgement about the strength of the corresponding recommendation.

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Guideline organizations' guidance documents paper 1: Introduction

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Guideline organizations' guidance documents paper 2: priority setting

 

Guideline organizations’ guidance documents paper 3: contributions and authorship

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Guideline organizations’ guidance documents paper 4: interest-holder engagement

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Guideline organizations' guidance documents paper 5: conflict of interest and funding

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Guideline organizations’ guidance documents paper 6: adaptation of practice guidelines

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Guideline organizations’ guidance documents paper 7: updating practice guidelines

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Guideline organizations' guidance documents paper 8: considering equity

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Guideline organizations' guidance documents paper 9: co-operative approaches

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Guideline organizations’ guidance documents paper 10: developing recommendations about diagnostic tests and strategies

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Guideline organizations' guidance documents paper 11: quality assurance and improvement in guideline development

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Core GRADE 1: overview of the Core GRADE approach

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Core GRADE 2: choosing the target of certainty rating and assessing imprecision

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Core GRADE 5: rating certainty of evidence—assessing indirectness

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Core GRADE 3: rating certainty of evidence—assessing inconsistency

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Core GRADE 4: rating certainty of evidence—risk of bias, publication bias, and reasons for rating up certainty

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Core GRADE 6: presenting the evidence in summary of findings tables

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Core GRADE 7: principles for moving from evidence to recommendations and decisions

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GRADE Guidance 44: strategies to enhance the utilization of randomized and non-randomized studies in evidence syntheses of health interventions

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​A decision algorithm for assessing indirectness in core GRADE

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