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INSTRUMENT
PurposeSeptember
of the 2001 The purpose of the Appraisal of Guidelines Research & Evaluation
(AGREE) Instrument is to provide a framework for assessing the quality
AGREE Instrument.
of clinical practice guidelines.
Clarity and presentation (items 15-18) deals with the language and format
of the guideline.
Overall assessment A section for overall assessment is included at the end of the instrument.
This contains a series of options ‘Strongly recommend’, ‘Recommend
(with provisos or alterations)’, ‘Would not recommend’ and ‘Unsure’. The
overall assessment requires the appraiser to make a judgement as to the
quality of the guideline, taking each of the appraisal criteria into account.
STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT
METHODOLOGY
11. The health benefits, side effects and risks have Strongly 4 3 2 1 Strongly
been considered in formulating the Agree Disagree
recommendations.
APPLICABILITY
21. The guideline presents key review criteria for Strongly 4 3 2 1 Strongly
monitoring and/or audit purposes. Agree Disagree
METHODOLOGY
OVERALL ASSESSMENT
Strongly recommend
Unsure