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SUBMITTER: Polus S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3418264 | biostudies-other | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Polus Stephanie S Lerberg Priya P Vogel Joshua J Watananirun Kanokwaroon K Souza Joao Paulo JP Mathai Matthews M Gülmezoglu A Metin AM
PloS one 20120813 8
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 g ...[more]