title: [Cross-cultural adaptation of the instrument Appraisal of Guidelines For Research & Evaluation II (AGREE II) for assessment of clinical guidelines].
abstract: This article describes the adaptation of the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument into Portuguese. A cross-cultural adaptation followed internationally accepted standards with the stages of translation, synthesis, back-translation, evaluation by an expert committee, and external evaluation. The translated instrument was published on the official AGREE websites.
authors.affiliation: Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
authors.forename: Gleide Simas Custódio
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, Brasil.
authors.forename: Airton Tetelbom
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D014177:Translations