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AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care

摘要：

Clinical practice guidelines, which are systematically developed statements aimed at helping people make clinical, policy-related and system-related decisions,1,2 frequently vary widely in quality.3,4 A strategy was needed to differentiate among guidelines and ensure that those of the highest quality are implemented. An international team of guideline developers and researchers, known as the AGREE Collaboration (Appraisal of Guidelines, Research and Evaluation), was established to create a generic instrument to assess the process of guideline development and reporting of this process in the guideline. Based on rigorous methodologies, the result of the collaboration’s efforts was the original AGREE instrument, which is a 23-item tool comprising six quality-related domains that was released in 2003 (www.agreetrust.org).