Is the GRADE framework evidence based?
In this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine , Brian Kavanagh (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) critiques the GRADE system of grading guidelines, arguing that even though it has evolved through the Evidence-Based Medicine movement, there is no evidence that GRADE itself is reliable. This paper is debated in a related Perspective by Mohammed Ansari and colleagues from the University of Ottawa.
Citation: Kavanagh BP (2009) The GRADE System for Rating Clinical Guidelines. PLoS Med 6(9): e1000094. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000094
Funding: This perspective was written without funding contributions from any source.
Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.
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CONTACTS:
Brian Kavanagh
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Critical Care
555 University Avenue
Toronto, ON M5G1X8
Canada
Telephone: University +1 416-978-4306, Hospital +1 416-813-6860
Email: brian.kavanagh@sickkids.ca
Related PLoS Medicine Perspective:
Citation: Ansari MT, Tsertsvadze A, Moher D (2009) Grading Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations: A Perspective. PLoS Med 6(9): e1000151. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000151
Funding: No specific funding was received to write this article.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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CONTACTS:
Mohammed Ansari
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Research Institute
401 Smyth Rd
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L1
Canada
Telephone: +1 613-737-7600 ext 4132
Email: moansari@ohri.ca
International collaborations key to evaluating eHealth
This week the open access journal PLoS Medicine continues its series on evaluating eHealth with an article by David Bates and Adam Wright (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) that discusses the opportunities and challenges of undertaking international collaborations in eHealth evaluation research. They recommend that international eHealth collaborations become much more frequent, and that more knowledge generation and data interchange are needed. Last month, in the first article the PLoS Medicine series on evaluating eHealth, Aziz Sheikh and Lorraine Catwell from the University of Edinburgh discussed the importance of evaluating the widespread investments in and adoption of information communication technology in health care.
Citation: Bates DW, Wright A (2009) Evaluating eHealth: Undertaking Robust International Cross-Cultural eHealth Research. PLoS Med 6(9): e1000105. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000105
Funding: No specific funding was received for this article.
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CONTACTS:
David Bates
Primary Work Harvard Medical School
Internal Medicine
1620 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02115
United States of America
Telephone: +1 617-732-5650
Email: dbates@partners.org
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