Best practice guideline methodology

RNAO’s best practice guidelines (BPG) are systematically developed, evidence-based documents that include recommendations for nurses, interprofessional health teams, educators, leaders and policy-makers on how to improve outcomes for people and their support networks. Our BPGs are developed following rigorous international standards of guideline development approaches: 

  • GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) 
  • GRADE-CERQual (Confidence of Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) 

To develop BPGs, we engage in a seven-step process: 

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