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In January 2012 an article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems titled 'Clinical practice guidelines within the Southern African development community: a descriptive study of the quality of guideline development and concordance with best evidence for five priority diseases.' I am a second author on this article and it is based on work [...]
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Assessing the quality of standard treatment guidelines on the management of e.g. HIV, malaria, diarrhoea in children and hypertension, both from the WHO and all SADC countries using the AGREE II instument. In addition providing assistance with writing the report on the study.
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The Cochrane Collaboration assisted the Southern African Regional Programme on Access to Medicines and Diagnostics with an Inventory of Standard Treatment Guidelines. For this project, guidelines from SADC countries on e.g. HIV, malaria, hypertension and diarrhea needed to be assessed on their methodologicalquality using the AGREE II instrument. Epi Result assisted with this, being one of the two reviewers.
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How do you then do a cross-tabulation in SPSS when you do not have a dataset with the values of the two variables of interest? For example, if you do a critical appraisal of a published study and only have proportions and denominators. In this article it will be demonstrated how SPSS can come up with a cross table and do a Chi-square test in both situations. And you will see that the results are exactly the same.
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What is the difference between an instrument assessing the methodological quality of a study, and an instrument assessing the quality of the reporting of a study? And what guidelines are available for randomised controlled trials and observational studies? The purpose of this article is to give the reader a quick overview in relation to these questions. It discusses methodological quality lists recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration, and the CONSORT, STROBE and PRISMA Statement for reporting of studies.
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