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Table 5 Results, summary of the judgements made by the 17 evaluators of the overall quality in the 12 examples in the pilot study

From: Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system

Example

High

Moderate

Low

Very low

Consensus

Comments

1

2/15

4/15

5/15

4/15

Moderate

 

2

12/17

5/17

-

-

High

 

3

1/17

6/17

5/17

5/17

Need more information before consensus

4

4/17

13/17

-

-

High

Based on the new rule

5

12/16

4/16

-

-

High

 

6

7/17

10/17

-

-

High

Based on new rule

7

-

11/17

6/17

-

Moderate

 

8

-

6/17

3/17

8/17

High

Based on new rule

9

2/16

3/16

5/16

6/16

High/Moderate depending if there are fatal flaws

10

-

1/17

4/17

12/17

Very low

 

11

1/17

3/17

8/17

5/17

High

Changed question

12

11/13

2/13

-

-

High