Das GRADE-System
- 8 May 2008
- journal article
- abstracts
- Published by Springer Nature in Die Innere Medizin
- Vol. 49 (6), 673-680
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00108-008-2141-9
Abstract
Leitlinien haben sich für Ärzte und Patienten zu einer wichtigen Stütze bei diagnostischen und therapeutischen Entscheidungen entwickelt. Um die aktuell verfügbaren methodischen Konzepte der Leitlinienentwicklung zu harmonisieren und die große Heterogenität und oft mangelnde Transparenz existierender Systeme zu überwinden, hat die GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group, eine internationale Kollaboration von Leitlinienentwicklern, Klinikern und Methodikern, die vorhandenen Konzepte weiterentwickelt. Zentrale Bestandteile des GRADE-Systems sind die Unterscheidung zwischen der Qualität der Evidenz und der Stärke einer Empfehlung, die gleichzeitige Betrachtung von Nutzen und Schaden einer Intervention, die Fokussierung auf patientenrelevante Endpunkte, die Abbildung von inhärenten Wertvorstellungen einer Empfehlung und die Integration von Überlegungen zum Ressourcenverbrauch. Unter Berücksichtigung dieser Kriterien werden mit dem GRADE-System starke und abgeschwächte Empfehlungen abgegeben. International befürworten zahlreiche Leitlinienorganisationen und medizinische Fachgesellschaften das System und haben es für die Erstellung der eigenen Leitlinien übernommen. Clinical practice guidelines have become an important source of information to support clinicians in the management of individual patients. However, current guideline methods have limitations that include the lack of separating the quality of evidence from the strength of recommendations. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) working group, an international collaboration of guideline developers, methodologists, and clinicians have developed a system that addresses these shortcomings. Core elements include transparent methodology for grading the quality of evidence, the distinction between quality of the evidence and strength of a recommendation, an explicit balancing of benefits and harms of health care interventions, an explicit recognition of the values and preferences that underlie recommendations. The GRADE system has been piloted in various practice settings to ensure that it captures the complexity involved in evidence assessment and grading recommendations while maintaining simplicity and practicality. Many guideline organizations and medical societies have endorsed the system and adopted it for their guideline processes.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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