Framework | Theme | Category | Sub-category |
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Guideline scope and purpose | Broad agreements and consensus about scope and purpose | Target audience involved in framing the guideline scope and purpose | Hearings with health-promoting organizations and politicians, professional groups |
Political proposal preceded guidelines with health-promoting scope | |||
Systematic and active involvement of stakeholders | Health-promoting hospitals networks used for piloting scope and identifying target population of Disease Prevention Guidelines | ||
Formalized and structured development procedure | Using systematic methodology for identifying and defining the Disease Prevention Guidelines concepts and health questions | Formal criteria for initiating CPG-process | |
Preparatory development process defining concepts and scope | |||
Systematic methodology in defining guideline health questions and key concepts | |||
Stakeholder involvement | Systematic and active involvement of stakeholders | Guideline development group included a wide scope of relevant professional groups and fields of knowledge | Experts representing: the CPG target area/s; methodology; communication; ethics; health economics |
Health professionals representing: the CPG target area/s; different parts of the country; different patient groups; and different parts of the health care system | |||
Involvement of stakeholder throughout the guideline development process | Meetings and collaboration with health-promoting organizations, politicians, and professional groups in the early phases of development | ||
Regional conferences with health providers in the county councils | |||
Rigour of development | Formalized and structured development procedure | Formalized CPG development procedure | Formalized procedure for defining purpose, scope and concepts |
Formalized procedure for searching and assessing evidence | |||
Formalized consensus procedure when there is a lack of evidence | |||
Formalized procedures are suggested for monitoring, evaluation and follow- up of Disease Prevention Guidelines | |||
Openness and transparency in Disease Prevention Guidelines development procedure | Transparency in methodology | Guideline development procedures explicit and overt | |
Recommendations and the supporting evidence are clearly connected | |||
Clarity of presentation | Openness and transparency in Disease Prevention Guidelines development procedure | Clear presentation of guideline development model | Description of the general Guideline development model is presented |
Description of the Disease Prevention Guidelines development model and organization is presented | |||
Methodology for collecting evidence is presented | |||
Clear presentation of the Disease Prevention Guidelines recommendations | Experts in communication involved in the formulation of Disease Prevention Guidelines | ||
Links between recommendations and evidence are clear | |||
Applicability | Systematic and active involvement of stakeholders | Target users tested the hypothetical use of the Disease Prevention Guidelines recommendations | Health professionals hypothetical tested the use of the Disease Prevention Guidelines in clinical setting |
Health care providers hypothetical tested the use of the Disease Prevention Guidelines in a health care management setting | |||
Openness and transparency in Disease Prevention Guidelines development procedure | Barriers/facilitators for the Disease Prevention Guidelines application were presented | Facilitating factors for the implementation of the Disease Prevention Guidelines were sought by target users | |
Monitoring, evaluation and update of Disease Prevention Guidelines | Barriers for the implementation of the Disease Prevention Guidelines were sought by target users | ||
Formalized procedures for monitoring, evaluation and follow- up of Disease Prevention Guidelines are suggested | |||
Editorial independence | Openness and transparency in Disease Prevention Guidelines development procedure | Autonomy of Guideline developers | The NBHW autonomous government agency |
Formalized procedures for seeking and recording possible competing interests of all members of development group |