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List of GRADE working group publications and grants

  1. Schünemann HJ, Best D, Vist G, Oxman AD for the GRADE working group.
    Letters, numbers, symbols, and words: How best to communicate grades of evidence and recommendations?
    Canadian Medical Association Journal(CMAJ) 2003;169(7):677-680
  2. The GRADE* working group.
    Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations    .
    BMJ 2004;328:1490-1494 printed, abridged version).
    For the non-abridged version of this article, please go to the BMJ web site http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1490 or download a full PDF version from this link: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/328/7454/1490.pdf or, if you don't have access, here [pdf]
  3. The GRADE* working group.
    Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: Critical appraisal of existing approaches.
    BMC Health Serv Res. 2004 Dec 22;4(1):38. [pdf]
  4. The GRADE* working group.
    Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: A pilot study of a new system for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations    .
    BMC Health Serv Res. 2005 Mar 23;5(1):25. [pdf]
  5. Guyatt G, Vist G, Falck-Ytter Y, Kunz R, Magrini N, Schunemann H for the the GRADE* working group.
    An emerging consensus on grading recommendations?     (Editorial).
    ACP J Club. 2006 Jan-Feb;144(1):A08 [pdf]
  6. Guyatt G, Gutterman D, Baumann M, Addrizzo-Harris D, Hylek E, Phillips B, Raskob G, Lewis S, Schunemann H.
    Grading strength of recommendations and quality of evidence in clinical guidelines: report from an American college of chest physicians task force.
    Chest. 2006 Jan;129(1):174-81.
  7. Schünemann HJ, Jaeschke R, Cook D, Bria W, El-Solh A, Ernst A, Fahy A, Gould M, Horan K, Krishnan J, Manthous C, Maurer J, McNicholas W, Oxman A, Rubenfeld G, Turino G, Guyatt G, on behalf of the ATS Documents Development and Implementation Committee.
    An Official ATS Statement: Grading the Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations in ATS Guidelines and Recommendations.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006;174:605-614.
  8. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Vist G, Kunz R, Falck-Ytter Y, Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ, for the GRADE Working Group.
    Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.
    BMJ 2008;336:924-926 or [pdf]
  9. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Vist GE, Falck-Ytter Y, Schünemann HJ; GRADE Working Group.
    Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: What is "quality of evidence" and why is it important to clinicians?
    BMJ. 2008 May 3;336(7651):995-8
  10. Schünemann HJ, Oxman AD, Brozek J, Glasziou P, Jaeschke R, Vist GE, Williams JW Jr, Kunz R, Craig J, Montori VM, Bossuyt P, Guyatt GH; GRADE Working Group.
    Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies.
    BMJ. 2008 May 17;336(7653):1106-10
  11. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Jaeschke R, Helfand M, Liberati A, Vist GE, Schünemann HJ; GRADE working group.
    Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendations.
    BMJ. 2008 May 24;336(7654):1170-3
  12. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Falck-Ytter Y, Vist GE, Liberati A, Schünemann HJ; GRADE Working Group.
    Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations: Going from evidence to recommendations.
    BMJ. 2008 May 10;336(7652):1049-51
  13. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Dellinger P, Schünemann H, Levy MM, Kunz R, Norris S, Bion J; GRADE working group.
    Use of GRADE grid to reach decisions on clinical practice guidelines when consensus is elusive.
    BMJ. 2008 Jul 31;337:a744
  14. Falck-Ytter Y, Kunz R, Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ.
    How strong is the evidence?
    Am J Gastroenterol. 2008 Jun;103(6):1334-8

Abstracts and conferences

Oxman AD, Briss P, Eccles M, Grimshaw JM, Guyatt G, Phillips B, Schunemann H, Vist G, Zaza S. Grading evidence and recommendations. BMC Meeting Abstracts: 9th International Cochrane Colloquium 2001, 1:pc148

Texts citing the work of the GRADE group

  1. Commentary: Ross E.G. Upshur: Are all evidence-based practices alike? Problems in the ranking of evidence.
    CMAJ, Sep 2003; 169: 672 - 673. (related to manuscript 1.)
  2. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/169/7/649 related to manuscript 1.)
  3. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/169/7/677#457
  4. Guidelines for World Health Organization Guidelines
  5. P. Glasziou, J. Vandenbroucke, and I. Chalmers. Assessing the quality of research.
    BMJ, January 3, 2004; 328(7430): 39 - 41    . (cites manuscript 1.)
  6. Huang H, et al. The Efficacy and Safety of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement Use To Prevent Cancer and Chronic Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review for a National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference.
    Ann Intern Med. 2006 Sep 5;145(5):372-85.
  7. Wierman ME, et al. Androgen therapy in women: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice guideline.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Oct;91(10):3697-710.
  8. Uhlig K, Macleod A, Craig J, Lau J, Levey AS, Levin A, Moist L, Steinberg E, Walker R, Wanner C, Lameire N, Eknoyan G. Grading evidence and recommendations for clinical practice guidelines in nephrology. A position statement from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO).
    Kidney Int. 2006 Dec;70(12):2058-65
  9. Schünemann HJ, et al. WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines for pharmacological management of sporadic human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus.
    Lancet Infect Dis. 2007 Jan;7(1):21-31.
  10. Glasziou P, Chalmers I, Rawlins M, McCulloch P. When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise.
    BMJ 2007;334:349-351
  11. Boulware L, et al. Systematic Review: The Value of the Periodic Health Evaluation.
    Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:289-300.
  12. Goldsmith MR, Bankhead CR, Austoker J. Synthesising quantitative and qualitative research in evidence-based patient information.
    J Epidemiol Community Health. 2007 Mar;61(3):262-70.
  13. Dahm P, Kunz R, Schünemann H. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prostate cancer: the need for a unified approach.
    Curr Opin Urol. 2007 May;17(3):200-7
  14. Vanholder R. Approach for guideline development.
    Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007 May;22 Suppl 2:ii1-ii4.
  15. Karanicolas P, et al. The Pylorus: Take It or Leave It? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pylorus-Preserving versus Standard Whipple Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic or Periampullary Cancer.
    Annals of Surgical Oncology 2007;14:1825-1834
  16. Barton M, et al. How to Read the New Recommendation Statement: Methods Update from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    Ann Intern Med. 2007;147:123-127
  17. Commentary: Langhorne P. Explicit Priority Setting in Clinical Guidelines The Next Frontier?
    Stroke. 2007;38:2037

Additional articles citing the BMJ 2004 GRADE article can be found here.

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