title: Guideline panels should seldom make good practice statements: guidance from the GRADE Working Group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address: guyatt@mcmaster.ca.
authors.forename: Gordon H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Guyatt
authors.affiliation: Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, CIBERESP-IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alonso-Coello
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada.
authors.forename: Holger J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Schünemann
authors.affiliation: Division of Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, USF Health Program for Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Health Outcomes Research, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Djulbegovic
authors.affiliation: AWMF-Institute for Medical Knowledge Management (IMWi), Karl-von-Frisch-Street 1, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nothacker
authors.affiliation: Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Im Mediapark 8, D-50670 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.affiliation: Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: M Hassan
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Murad
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Riad-El-Solh Beirut, 1107 2020 Beirut, Lebanon.
authors.forename: Elie A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Akl
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic