• Considering health equity when moving from evidence-based guideline recommendations to implementation: a case study from an upper-middle income country on the GRADE approach 

      Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier; Mosquera, Paola; Alzate, Juan Pablo; Pottie, Kevin; Welch, Vivian; Akl, Elie A.; Jull, Janet; Lang, Eddy; Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal; Morton, Rachel; Thabane, Lehana; Shea, Bev; Stein, Airton T.; Singh, Jasvinder; Florez, Ivan D.; Guyatt, Gordon; Schunemann, Holger; Tugwell, Peter
      Published 2017
      The availability of evidence-based guidelines does not ensure their implementation and use in clinical practice or policy making. Inequities in health have been defined as those inequalities within or between populations ...
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    • The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV in Migrants in the EU/EEA: A Systematic Review 

      Pottie, Kevin; Lofti, Tamara; Kilzar, Lama; Howeiss, Pamela; Rizk, Nesrine; Akl, Elie A.; Dias, Sonia; Biggs, Beverly-Ann; Christensen, Robin; Prinon, Rahman; Magwood, Olivia; Tran, Anh; Rowbotham, Nick; Pharris, Anastasia; Noori, Teymur; Pareek, Manish; Morton, Rachael
      Published 2018
      Migrants, defined as individuals who move from their country of origin to another, account for 40% of newly-diagnosed cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). ...
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    • GRADE equity guidelines 1: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: introduction and rationale 

      Welch, Vivian A.; Akl, Elie A.; Guyatt, Gordon; Pottie, Kevin; Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier; Ansari, Mohammed T.; Beer, Hans de; Briel, Matthias; Dans, Tony; Dans, Inday; Hultcrantz, Monica; Jull, Janet; Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal; Meerpohl, Joerg; Morton, Rachael; Mosdol, Annhild; Petkovic, Jennifer; Schunemann, Holger J.; Sharaf, Ravi N.; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Stanev, Roger; Tonia, Thomy; Tristan, Mario; Vitols, Sigurd; Watine, Joseph; Tugwell, Peter
      Published 2017
      Objectives This article introduces the rationale and methods for explicitly considering health equity in the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology for development of clinical, ...
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    • When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist 

      Tugwell, Peter; Welch, Vivian Andrea; Karunananthan, Sathya; Maxwell, Lara J.; Akl, Elie A.; Avey, Marc T.; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Brouwers, Melissa C.; Clark, Jocalyn P.; Cook, Sophie; Cuervo, Luis Gabriel; Curran, Janet Agnes; Ghogomu, Elizabeth Tanjong; Graham, Ian G.; Grimshaw, Jeremy M.; Hutton, Brian; Loannidis, John P.A.; Jordan, Zoe; Jull, Janet Elizabeth; Kristjansson, Elizabeth; Langlois, Etienne V.; Little, Julian; Lyddiatt, Anne; Martin, Janet E.; Marušić, Ana; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Moher, David; Morton, Rachael L.; Nasser, Mona; Page, Matthew J.; Pardo Pardo, Jordi; Jennifer, Petkovic; Petticrew, Mark; Pigott, Terri; Pottie, Kevin; Rada, Gabriel; Rader, Tamara; Riddle, Alison; Rothstein, Hannah; Schüneman, Holger; Shamseer, Larissa; Shea, Beverley J.; Simeon, Rosiane; Siontis, Konstantinos C.; Smith, Maureen; Soares-Weiser, Karla; Thavorn, Kednapa; Thavorn, David Tovey; Vachon, Brigitte; Valentine, Jeffery; Villemaire, Rebecca; Walker, Peter; Weeks, Laura; Wells, George; Wilson, David B.; White, Howard
      Published 2020
      For systematic reviews of interventions, replication is defined as the reproduction of findings of previous systematic reviews looking at the same effectiveness question either by: purposefully repeating the same methods ...
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