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Clinical Guideline Development Part 2: GRADE, AGREE, and the Alphabet Soup of Evidence Appraisal

  In 1990, while serving as director of the internal medicine residency program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Gordon Guyatt introduced a new approach to teaching at the bedside. He called it “Scientific Medicine.” The idea was straightforward: clinical decisions should be grounded in a critical appraisal of the best available evidence, not in …

From Hippocrates to Delphi: A Practical Guide to Clinical Guideline Development Part 1: Not All Guidance Is Created Equal

This is the first in a five-part series on the science and methodology behind clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements. The series “From Hippocrates to Delphi” is named for the arc that connects the earliest attempts to codify medical practice to the structured consensus methods we use today. Hippocrates gave us the idea that clinical …