Recommendations for Kidney Disease Guideline Updating: A Report by the KDIGO Methods Committee
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Uhlig, KatrinBerns, Jeffrey S.
Carville, Serena
Chan, Wiley
Cheung, Michael
Guyatt, Gordon H.
Hart, Allyson
Zelman Lewis, Sandra
Tonelli, Marcello
Webster, Angela C.
Wilt, Timothy J.
Kasiske, Bertram L.
Abstract
Updating rather than de novo guideline development now accounts for the majority of guideline activities for many guideline development organizations, including Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), an international kidney disease guideline development entity that has ...
See moreUpdating rather than de novo guideline development now accounts for the majority of guideline activities for many guideline development organizations, including Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), an international kidney disease guideline development entity that has produced guidelines on kidney diseases since 2008. Increasingly, guideline developers are moving away from updating at fixed intervals in favor of more flexible approaches that use periodic expert assessment of guideline currency (with or without an updated systematic review) to determine the need for updating. Determining the need for guideline updating in an efficient, transparent, and timely manner is challenging, and updating of systematic reviews and guidelines is labor intensive. Ideally, guidelines should be updated dynamically when new evidence indicates a need for a substantive change in the guideline based on a priori criteria. This dynamic updating (sometimes referred to as a living guideline model) can be facilitated with the use of integrated electronic platforms that allow updating of specific recommendations. This report summarizes consensus-based recommendations from a panel of guideline methodology professionals on how to keep KDIGO guidelines up to date.
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See moreUpdating rather than de novo guideline development now accounts for the majority of guideline activities for many guideline development organizations, including Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), an international kidney disease guideline development entity that has produced guidelines on kidney diseases since 2008. Increasingly, guideline developers are moving away from updating at fixed intervals in favor of more flexible approaches that use periodic expert assessment of guideline currency (with or without an updated systematic review) to determine the need for updating. Determining the need for guideline updating in an efficient, transparent, and timely manner is challenging, and updating of systematic reviews and guidelines is labor intensive. Ideally, guidelines should be updated dynamically when new evidence indicates a need for a substantive change in the guideline based on a priori criteria. This dynamic updating (sometimes referred to as a living guideline model) can be facilitated with the use of integrated electronic platforms that allow updating of specific recommendations. This report summarizes consensus-based recommendations from a panel of guideline methodology professionals on how to keep KDIGO guidelines up to date.
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2016-04-01Publisher
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in [Kidney International] following peer review. The version of record [Uhlig K, Berns JS, Carville S, Chan W, Cheung W, Guyatt GH, Hart A, Zelman Lewis S, Tonelli M, Webster AC, Wilt TJ, Kasiske BL. Recommendations for Kidney Disease Guideline Updating: A Report by the KDIGO Methods Committee. Kidney International, 2016;(4):753-60.] is available online at: https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(16)00279-9/fulltext [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2015.11.030].Citation
Uhlig K, Berns JS, Carville S, Chan W, Cheung W, Guyatt GH, Hart A, Zelman Lewis S, Tonelli M, Webster AC, Wilt TJ, Kasiske BL. Recommendations for Kidney Disease Guideline Updating: A Report by the KDIGO Methods Committee. Kidney International, 2016;(4):753-60.Share