title: The Eastern Association of the Surgery of Trauma approach to practice management guideline development using Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology.
abstract: The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) is a leader in evidence-based medicine and the development of practice management guidelines (PMGs) in trauma and acute care surgery. The previous primer describing EAST's approach for assessing the quality of available evidence and making recommendations for developing PMGs was published in 2000. Since that time, many new systems have been developed in an attempt to overcome previous shortcomings and to devise a methodologically rigorous and transparent approach to the assessment of quality of evidence and development of guidelines. One of these is the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system. The membership of EAST has determined that the GRADE methodology will be the system used in all future EAST PMGs. The purpose of this article was thus to describe the GRADE methodology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. andy.kerwin@jax.ufl.edu
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kerwin
authors.forename: Elliott R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Haut
authors.forename: J Bracken
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Como
authors.forename: Adil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haider
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stassen
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dahm
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014194:Traumatology / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery*