What are evidence-based treatment recommendations?

Journal article

In recent years new methodologies for developing treatment recommendations that give consideration to evidence, values, preferences and feasibility issues have been developed. One of the most well-developed approaches is the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology. This article briefly presents how this methodology may be employed to develop treatment recommendations that might constitute a permanent infrastructure between primary research and everyday clinical practice.

Authors: Barbui, C; Cipriani, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-31
• Publication date: 2011-03-01
• DOI: 10.1017/S2045796011000084
• EISSN: 2045-7979
• ISSN: 2045-7960
• Language: English
• Keywords: Italy; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Mental Disorders; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Feasibility Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Evidence-Based Medicine