Are the evidence statements and recommendations referenced?
The intervention followed medical record audits and included face-to-face provider feedback, written recommendations, reference articles, seminars and telephone consultations.
Further to this, we initially sought ethics committee guidance on this issue, and were met with limited direction, recommendation, references or advice.
AHRQ grade of underlying recommendation (reference http://archive.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcarch.htm), BCS: breast conservative surgery, pT1: small primary tumor, SLN: sentinel lymph node, CIS: carcinoma in situ.
Three authors (JR, JS and WYL) extracted the following information relating to TCM: the organisation issuing the guideline, date of issue, disease, location in guidelines of TCM content, recommended TCM content, evidence level of the recommendation and references supporting the recommendations.
The app contains 12,000 sets of interactions with detailed information including consequences, recommendations and references to help physicians make the right decisions.
The purpose of this study was to review the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists practices bulletins to quantify the type of recommendations and references and determining whether there are any differences between obstetric and gynecologic bulletins.
Word-of-mouth recommendations and references have been a part of the employment process for centuries, but coding them into digital platforms opens up what were previously more tacit signals to a much broader audience. .
The recommendations and references to what is common regarding number of groups vary within these text books.
The statements provided ranged from general and brief to extensive and more specific recommendations providing references to relevant evidence, although the latter was rare (see Additional file 2: Appendix B).
