Getting trustworthy guidelines into the hands of decision-makers and supporting their consideration of contextual factors for implementation globally: recommendation mapping of COVID-19 guidelines

LOTFI, T, A STEVENS, EA AKL, M FALAVIGNA, T KREDO, JL MATHEW and HJ SCHUNEMANN. Getting trustworthy guidelines into the hands of decision-makers and supporting their consideration of contextual factors for implementation globally: recommendation mapping of COVID-19 guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. NEW YORK: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2021, vol. 135, p. 182-186. ISSN 0895-4356. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.034.

Basic information

• Original name: Getting trustworthy guidelines into the hands of decision-makers and supporting their consideration of contextual factors for implementation globally: recommendation mapping of COVID-19 guidelines
• Authors: LOTFI, T, A STEVENS, EA AKL, M FALAVIGNA, T KREDO, JL MATHEW and HJ SCHUNEMANN.
• Edition: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, NEW YORK, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2021, 0895-4356.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 7.407
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.034
• UT WoS: 000678570200018
• Keywords in English: COVID-19; Knowledge translation; Public health; Internet portal; Guidelines; Living recommendations; Quality appraisal; Health policy; GRADE
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Published research on COVID-19 is increasing rapidly and integrated in guidelines. The trustworthiness of guidelines can vary depending on the methods used to assemble and evaluate the evidence, the completeness and transparency of reporting on the process undertaken and how conflicts of interest are addressed. With a global consortium of partners and collaborators, we have created a catalogue of COVID-19 recommendations as our direct response to the increased need for structured access to high quality guidance in the field. The COVID19 map of recommendations and gateway to contextualization ( https://covid19.recmap.org ) is a living project: emerging guideline literature is added on an ongoing basis, allowing granular access to individual recommendations. Building on prior work on mapping recommendations for the World Health Organization tuberculosis guidelines, a novel feature of this map is the self-directed contextualization of the recommendations using the GRADE-Adolopment approach to adopt, adapt or synthesize de novo recommendations for context specific questions. Through our map, stakeholders access the evidence underpinning a recommendation, select what needs to be contextualized and go through the steps of development of adapted recommendations. This one-stop shop portal of evidence-informed recommendations, built with intuitive functionalities, easy to navigate and with a support team ready to guide users across the maps, represents a long-needed tool for decision-makers, guideline developers and the public at large. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.