Methodology for clinical practice guidelines --identifying and forming the scope, topic and clinical question
Jin Yinghui
Han Fei
Wang Qiang
Wang Xinghuan
Abstract：Only when the scope is well defined will it be possible to develop guideline meeting the clinical requirement, assess the workload and timescale of the guideline development process. Scope and topic involve considering in detail the areas of clinical practice that will be addressed by the guideline. There are some key principals: inviting the coordinators of all interest groups or stakeholders to propose and discuss new guideline topics; giving priority on topics with high costs, major patient impact; high practice variation. The questions listed in the scope or topic need to be translated into review questions for developing review questions and planning the evidence review. Clinical questions should be more clear and focused. A helpful framework to format key questions systematically is the PICO framework.
Keywords：GuidelineHandbookScopeTopicQuestion
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 257-261 )