Session date: Thursday, October 19, 2017

Location: DCH Vey Auditorium

Topics: 

• Using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology to evaluate a body of literature
  • Quality of Evidence
    • Downgrading quality
    • Upgrading quality
  • Making Practice Recommendations
    • Strong
    • Weak

Assignments:

• Schedule consult to review GRADE table

• Complete GRADE evidence table and “Critically Analyze the Evidence” and “Apply the Evidence” sections of guideline by Wednesday, November 1^st

Please complete the following tasks PRIOR to our class session on October 19th. 

Task 1: Read the following article introducing the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology.

GRADE: An emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

Feel free to browse the GRADE website for more resources and information.

US GRADE Network

If you are interested in reading more in-depth about the GRADE criteria, please review the following articles:

Downgrading level of evidence:

Upgrading level of evidence:

If you are interested in reading more in-depth about how to make a clinical practice recommendation using GRADE, please review the following articles:

From Evidence to Recommendation: http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/336/7652/1049.full.pdf

Resource Considerations

The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria are used to evaluate the body of evidence used to make clinical practice recommendations.

The steps for upgrading/downgrading the level of evidence for a body of literature is described on Page 1. The table on Page 2 defines how the quality of the evidence is used to establish Strong and Weak clinical practice recommendations.