Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.

In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) received a criticism for a lack of transparency and systematic methods in the development of guidelines, which were at that time perceived as substantially driven by expert opinion. In this paper we assessed the quality of maternal and perinatal health gu...

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Autores principales:	Stephanie Polus, Priya Lerberg, Joshua Vogel, Kanokwaroon Watananirun, Joao Paulo Souza, Matthews Mathai, A Metin Gülmezoglu
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1cf4a638efaf4b8db2ec17fd563779882021-11-18T07:09:00ZAppraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0038891https://doaj.org/article/1cf4a638efaf4b8db2ec17fd563779882012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22912662/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) received a criticism for a lack of transparency and systematic methods in the development of guidelines, which were at that time perceived as substantially driven by expert opinion. In this paper we assessed the quality of maternal and perinatal health guidelines developed since then. We used the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II tool to evaluate the quality of methodological rigour and transparency of four different WHO guidelines published between 2007 and 2011. Our findings showed high scores among the most recent guidelines on maternal and perinatal health suggesting higher quality. However, there is still potential for improvement, especially in including different stakeholder views, transparency of guidelines regarding the role of the funding body and presentation of the guideline document.Stephanie PolusPriya LerbergJoshua VogelKanokwaroon WatananirunJoao Paulo SouzaMatthews MathaiA Metin GülmezogluPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 8, p e38891 (2012)
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description	In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) received a criticism for a lack of transparency and systematic methods in the development of guidelines, which were at that time perceived as substantially driven by expert opinion. In this paper we assessed the quality of maternal and perinatal health guidelines developed since then. We used the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II tool to evaluate the quality of methodological rigour and transparency of four different WHO guidelines published between 2007 and 2011. Our findings showed high scores among the most recent guidelines on maternal and perinatal health suggesting higher quality. However, there is still potential for improvement, especially in including different stakeholder views, transparency of guidelines regarding the role of the funding body and presentation of the guideline document.
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author	Stephanie Polus Priya Lerberg Joshua Vogel Kanokwaroon Watananirun Joao Paulo Souza Matthews Mathai A Metin Gülmezoglu
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title	Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.
title_short	Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.
title_full	Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.
title_fullStr	Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.
title_full_unstemmed	Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.
title_sort	appraisal of who guidelines in maternal health using the agree ii assessment tool.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2012
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Appraisal of WHO guidelines in maternal health using the AGREE II assessment tool.

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