GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence—imprecision

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - Tập 64 - Trang 1283-1293 - 2011
Gordon H. Guyatt1,2, Andrew D. Oxman3, Regina Kunz4,5, Jan Brozek1, Pablo Alonso-Coello6, David Rind7, P.J. Devereaux1, Victor M. Montori8, Bo Freyschuss9, Gunn Vist3, Roman Jaeschke2, John W. Williams10, Mohammad Hassan Murad8, David Sinclair11, Yngve Falck-Ytter12, Joerg Meerpohl13,14, Craig Whittington15, Kristian Thorlund1, Jeff Andrews16, Holger J. Schünemann1,2
1Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
2Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
3Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, PO Box 7004, St Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway
4Academy of Swiss Insurance Medicine (asim), University Hospital Basel, Petergraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
5Basel Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel Hebelstrasse 10, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
6Iberoamerican Cochrane Center-Servicio de Epidemiología Clínica y Salud Pública and CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Hospital de Sant Pau, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona 08041, Spain
7Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
8Knowledge and Encounter Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
9Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute M54, Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
10Durham VA Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
11Effective Health Care Research Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
12Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Case and VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
13German Cochrane Center, Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Center Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
14Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
15National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK
16Vanderbilt Evidence-based Practice Centre, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

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