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scope_creep (talk) 11:43, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi @Aldonam:, excellent article. Can you fix the refs. They are bare urls at the moment, and prone to linkrot. Also can you please link the article a bit better. It could do with a few more. scope_creep (talk) 11:53, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

GRADE Working Group

GRADE Working Group founded in the year 2000 by Gordon H. Guyatt and Andrew D. Oxman is an informal collaboration of scientists from many countries, with an interest in addressing the shortcomings of grading systems in health care all over the world. It has more than 500 international members and a growing number of globally distributed networks. Two co-chairs of GRADE Working Group are Gordon H. Guyatt and Holger J. Schünemann, both from McMaster University, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI).

The working group has developed a common, sensible and transparent approach to grading quality (or certainty) of evidence and strength of recommendations – acronym GRADE (The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation). Many international organizations have provided input into the development of the GRADE approach, which is now considered the standard in guideline development.

GRADE Working Group’s everyday support is provided by GRADE centers:

McMaster University GRADE Center, Lanzhou University GRADE Center, Barcelona GRADE Center, Freiburg University GRADE Center, American University of Beirut GRADE Center, Lazio Region-ASL Rome GRADE Center, Javeriana Bogota GRADE Center, JBI Adelaide GRADE Center; and GRADE networks: U.S. GRADE Network, Melbourne GRADE Centre, Dutch GRADE Network, UK GRADE Network. The mission of all these institutions is to support initiatives in evidence-based health care and disseminate GRADE methodology through training, mentorship, education, and collaboration.

DECIDE project

The biggest, a 5-year project by the GRADE Working Group was DECIDE (acronym for Developing and Evaluating Communication strategies to support Informed Decisions and practice based on Evidence), which ran from January 2011 to December 2015. It was co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project's coordinator was prof. Shaun Treweek, University of Aberdeen.
The project objective was "to improve the dissemination of evidence-based recommendations by building on the work of the GRADE Working Group to develop and evaluate methods that address the targeted dissemination of guidelines". GRADE Working Group team leading the project has worked on innovative ways to present research evidence in guidelines that was specifically tailored to meet the needs of different types of user. The work was divided into five parts, each focused on another profile of guideline user: health professionals; policymakers and managers; patients and public, people making diagnostic decisions and people making decisions about health system interventions. As the effect of this project some important tools were developed or improved:

• The Evidence to Decision framework (EtD) to help groups of people (panels) making healthcare recommendations or decisions move from evidence to decisions.
• Interactive Evidence to Decision (iEtD) tools to facilitate use of GRADE EtD frameworks by guideline developers, HTA agencies, policymakers and managers.
• The interactive Summary of Findings tables (iSoF) to support interactive presentations of research findings to diverse types of user.
• The DECIDE/G-I-N public toolkit chapter for guideline producers on how to produce patient versions of guidelines.
• The GRADEpro guideline development tool to package the bulk of DECIDE’s work and to support guideline producers through the whole guideline process.
• GRADE Database of Evidence Profiles, Summary of Findings Tables and Recommendations
• Electronic GRADE-based decision aid prototype
• GET IT - Glossary to help people understand unfamiliar concepts and terms when they are assessing claims about treatments.
• Guideline Development Checklist and toolkit.