Why GRADE? 15 reasons to use GRADE methodology for your guideline recommendations

How GRADEpro helps you to create guidelines according to the best practices of GRADE?

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Our second Webinar with Evidence Prime - Why GRADE? took place on the 28th of February 2022!

Watch the webinar:

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During the webinar, we talked about the 15 reasons to use GRADE methodology for your guideline recommendations. We also presented a few features of our tool - GRADEpro, which enable you to lead the process of guideline creation (and not only) while using GRADE methodology. We showed you a little sneak peek into our various features that facilitate guideline development and share our ideas for the future. At the end, we had a Q&A session with Holger Schünemann (link below).

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Read Q&A session summary:

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Speakers:

Holger Schünemann is professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact and of Medicine, McMaster University. He received his MD and Dr. med. from Hannover Medical School and trained in lung biology, epidemiology, internal medicine and preventive medicine/public health at SUNY Buffalo (M.Sc. & Ph.D.). In 2009, he joined McMaster University full-time, widely considered the birthplace of evidence-based health care and problem-based learning to become Chair of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He completed his final term as chair in 2019 and now leads the Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada Center and the McMaster GRADE center. He also is director of Cochrane Canada, co-chair of the GRADE working group and co-director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations. He has led evidence synthesis and guideline methodology projects and has been advisor and chair of many guideline expert groups for WHO, the European Commission, ministries of health, other governmental organizations and professional societies. As author of over 700 publications (h-index 160/102 google scholar/web of science) he is among the 500 most cited scientists globally (www.webometrics.info). Maintaining an active internal medicine practice fulfills his passion for patient care and ensures his guideline work is people-oriented.

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‍Justyna Lityńska is a Junior Product Manager at Evidence Prime. She provides support to users of GRADEpro and takes part in the constant improvement of its features.

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Bart Dietl is the head of Product Development at Evidence Prime. He provides the pioneers of Evidence Based Medicine and the GRADE method with new solutions and leads the process of creating new tools that facilitate the guideline development process.

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What will you learn?

• Why GRADE? 15 reasons to use GRADE for your guideline recommendations
• Why GRADEpro? How GRADEpro helps you to create guidelines according to the best practices of GRADE?

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Read summary of the Q&A session:

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