title: A meta schema for evidence information in clinical practice guidelines as a basis for decision-making.
abstract: Clinical practice guidelines are an important instrument to aid physicians during medical diagnosis and treatment. Currently, different guideline developing organizations try to define and integrate evidence information into such guidelines. However, the coding schemas and taxonomies used for the evidence information differ widely, which makes the use cumbersome and demanding. We explored these various schemas and developed a meta schema for the evidence information, which covers the most important components of the existing ones, is comprehensible, and easy to understand for the users. We developed and assessed the usefulness and applicability of our meta schema with guideline developers and physicians.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. kaiser@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miksch
authors.forename: Alime
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oztürk
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012107:Research Design; D012196:Review Literature as Topic