Application of the AGREE II instrument in the evaluation of a selection of South African Clinical Guidelines
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| dc.contributor.advisor | Rheeder, Paul | en |
| dc.contributor.postgraduate | Jamaloodien, Khadija | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-02T11:06:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-07-02T11:06:56Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2015/04/24 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en |
| dc.description | Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2014. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Guideline development processes influence the quality of clinical guidelines. The aim of this study was to use the AGREE II instrument to evaluate the variability of the quality of selected guidelines, to determine a baseline for the quality of current guidelines and determine whether guidelines demonstrated good standard practice during their development. The AGREE II instrument was used to assess a selection of guidelines published between January 2012 and June 2013. Eleven guidelines were selected for review. Overall, guidelines scored highest in domain 1 (Scope and purpose) and 4 (Clarity of presentation); and lowest in domain 3 (Rigour of development) and 6 (Editorial independence) with the overall assessment score of three out of seven. The study demonstrated that the quality of guidelines was variable and that there are deficiencies in the guideline development process. The results from this study provide a baseline to measure the quality of future guidelines. | en |
| dc.description.availability | Unrestricted | en |
| dc.description.degree | MSc | en |
| dc.description.department | School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) | en |
| dc.description.librarian | tm2015 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jamaloodien, K 2014, Application of the AGREE II instrument in the evaluation of a selection of South African Clinical Guidelines, MSc Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46133> | en |
| dc.identifier.other | A2015 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46133 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | en |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en |
| dc.subject | Clinical guidelines | |
| dc.subject | Guideline development | |
| dc.subject | Quality of guidelines | |
| dc.subject | AGREE II instrument | |
| dc.title | Application of the AGREE II instrument in the evaluation of a selection of South African Clinical Guidelines | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
