Non-Communicable Disease Clinical Practice Guidelines in Brazil: A Systematic Assessment of Methodological Quality and Transparency.

Caroline de Godoi Rezende Costa MolinoNicolina Silvana Romano-LieberEliane RibeiroDaniela Oliveira de Melo

Published in: PloS one (2016)

Brazilian healthcare professionals should be concerned with CPG quality for the treatment of selected NCDs. Features that undermined AGREE II scores included the lack of a multidisciplinary team for the development group, no consideration of patients' preferences, insufficient information regarding literature searches, lack of selection criteria, formulating recommendations, authors' conflict of interest disclosures, and funding body influence.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
systematic review
chronic kidney disease
dna methylation
healthcare
prognostic factors
gene expression
clinical practice
health information
social media
combination therapy
patient reported