GRADE Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2011 series list of articles

 

Introductory articles

1. Introduction and summary of findings tables

2. Framing the question and deciding on the importance of outcomes

3. Rating the quality of evidence — introduction

 

Rating the quality of evidence

4. Rating the quality of evidence — risk of bias

5. Rating the quality of evidence — publication bias

6. Rating the quality of evidence — imprecision (random error)

7. Rating the quality of evidence — inconsistency

8. Rating the quality of evidence — indirectness

9. Rating up the quality of evidence

10. Rating the quality of evidence for resource use

 

Summarizing the evidence

11. Summarizing the quality of evidence for individual outcomes and across outcomes

12. Preparing summary of findings tables — binary outcomes

13. Preparing summary of findings tables — continuous outcomes

 

Diagnostic tests

14. Applying GRADE to diagnostic tests

 

Making recommendations

15. Going from evidence to recommendations — the meaning of strong and weak recommendations

16. Going from evidence to recommendations — determinants of a recommendation's direction and strength

17. Going from evidence to recommendations — resource use

 

GRADE and observational studies

18. Special challenges in using observational studies

 

Concluding articles

19. Group processes, variations of GRADE, and further developments of GRADE part 1

20. Group processes, variations of GRADE, and further developments of GRADE part 2