A structured review has been carried out on methodological documents on CPGs and documents oriented towards the production of CPG-P (or related documents).
Methodological studies document that event history calendars improve accuracy of health information over conventional questionnaire instruments [ 48, 49].
With tailoring to the local context, the methodological approach documented is likely to be of use to those responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating complex public health initiatives internationally.
In terms of the types of literature sourced, there were 27 methodological discussion papers, 3 papers containing methodological discussion with one case study, two editorials, two methodology books, two guidance documents and one paper reporting primary research.
It might also be useful to include further methodological provisions to document model development and provenance.
Well-developed methodological inquiry to document determinants of decisions, funding flows, and catalysts for policy development are needed.
In this methodological paper we document the interpretation of a mixed methods study and outline an approach to dealing with apparent discrepancies between qualitative and quantitative research data in a pilot study evaluating whether welfare rights advice has an impact on health and social outcomes among a population aged 60 and over.
As methodological proxies, we documented the econometric technique used9 and whether the estimates came from a published paper or a working paper.10.
Recent methodological research has documented several benefits of having standard and gold-standard measurements simultaneously on a subset of individuals [58], [59], [60].
