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Table 2 Amount and citing analysis of Chinese clinical guidelines developed in 1997- 2007

From: Analysis of the Status of Chinese clinical practice guidelines development

Year

Actual number of guidelines

Calculated data of guidelines’ numbers

95% confidence interval of calculated data of guidelines’ number

Immediacy index

1997

2

1.938

0.626-5.990

3

1998

3

2.590

0.867-7.726

---*

1999

3

3.461

1.192-10.034

1

2000

3

4.625

1.627-13.134

5

2001

5

6.182

2.202-17.330

5.4

2002

8

8.261

2.956-23.062

0.3

2003

29

11.040

3.934-30.953

2

2004

18

14.755

5.191-41.895

1.04

2005

13

19.719

6.794-57.169

0.71

2006

36

26.353

8.824-78.612

0.7

2007

23

35.218

11.380-108.867

2.75

  1. Note:
  2. Immediacy index is used to measure the adoption speed of guidelines. It equals C1/A as listed in Table 1.
  3. * No guidelines were published in 1998. (All the guidelines developed in 1998 had not been published until 1999) So the immediacy index cannot be calculated in 1998.
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