About the AID Knowledge Working Group
Appraising and Including Different Knowledge in Guideline Development
Evidence-based guidelines whether national, regional, or developed by specialty groups, must search for, and explicitly consider, evidence from sources other than conventional clinical trials and their quantitative data. This need for appraising and including knowledge from a wide variety of sources in guideline development is well recognised. However, how to properly appraise (judge) and include (integrate) different kinds of knowledge remains unclear.
Cited from Wieringa S, Dreesens D, Forland F on behalf of the AID Knowledge Working Group of the Guidelines International Network, et al Different knowledge, different styles of reasoning: a challenge for guideline development BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2018;23:87-91.
Aims & Objectives
To bring guideline developers together, to
- Identify methods and promising initiatives for appraising and including a wider range of knowledge sources in guidelines.
- Share experiences with such methods and their application in practice.
- Identify areas / questions for which methods are wanting.
- Develop methods for appraising and integrating different knowledge.
We also aim to support capacity building and to foster collaboration among guideline developers worldwide in this area of methodological uncertainty.
Congratulations to the AID Knowledge working group on their latest publication: From “getting things right” to “getting things right now”: Developing COVID-19 guidance under time pressure and knowledge uncertainty.
Read it online here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jep.13625
Chair:
Dunja Dreesens
Vice Chair:
Lea Losch
Board Liaison:
Miranda Langendam
If you are a GIN member and are interested in joining this Working Group, please email membership_manager@g-i-n.net.