title: [Guidelines 2.0: systematic development of a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Guideline developers worldwide are struggling with the lack of guidance for the practical steps in the guideline enterprise. Our objective was to systematically compile a comprehensive checklist of items linked to relevant resources and tools that guideline developers would consider for development and support of implementation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data sources included manuals of international guideline developers, literature on guidelines for guidelines with a focus on international and national guideline agencies, professional societies, and recent systematic guidance articles. We reviewed these sources in duplicate, extracted items using a sensitive approach and developed overarching topics that are relevant to guidelines. In an iterative process, we reviewed items for duplication and omissions and involved experts in guideline development for revisions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We developed a checklist with 18 topics and 146 items and a webpage to facilitate its use by guideline developers (http://cebgrade.mcmaster.ca/guidecheck.html). The topics and items included cover all stages of the guideline enterprise, from planning to formulating recommendations, to dissemination and evaluation. The final itemized guideline development checklist (GDC) includes links to training material and resources for methodology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The GDC will serve as a resource for those involved in guideline development and we will use crowdsourcing to keep the checklist up to date and enhance it.
authors.forename: Gian Paolo
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Morgano
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davoli
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moja
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Amato
authors.forename: Eliana
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ferroni
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tirani
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist / Q000379:methods*; D032921:Consensus; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D020407:Internet; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012196:Review Literature as Topic