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CAN WE CREATE AN EFFICIENT EVIDENCE ECOSYSTEM FOR STROKE GUIDELINES? INITIAL EXPERIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS BASED ON A 'LIVING' GUIDELINES MODEL
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Background And Aims: Clinical Guidelines are an important tool to ensure research is translated into policy and practice. Guideline development takes considerable time, effort and expertise and much duplication occurs internationally. Online guideline development platforms (such as MAGICapp) can facilitate rapid integration of new evidence while ensuring transparency of information including GRADE methods. Such tools may be useful to build trust and enable efficient sharing of information, reducing duplication of effort and ultimately allowing greater focus on implementation and improvement in clinical practice. We aim to describe the case study of Australian Stroke Guidelines being used in the Czech republic based on GRADE methods. Methods: Australian Guidelines were developed and published on the MAGICapp platform as part of the ‘living’ guidelines project. GRADE profiles were then reviewed and used by Czech Republic team to produce local guidelines. Results: Australian guidelines have been updated (including national approval process) within five months of new evidence being published (compared to 18–24 months previously). Updated information was rapidly adopted by the Czech Republic team to produce local recommendations saving many months. Access of the online Australian guidelines content (compared to previous online PDF document) increased significantly from 8,582 views (2010) to 50,232 views (2017). Conclusions: Online tools can be used to share information previously not published and facilitate more efficient reuse and sharing of GRADE summaries for guidelines. There is further opportunity to work smarter to maintain updated GRADE profiles for use in guideline development. |