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Background: Cochrane Review Groups are encouraged to demonstrate impact by tracking guidelines that incorporate their reviews. To help with this we began to compile a collection of guidelines that cite Cochrane Airways Group reviews. This grew into the idea of establishing a general collection of respiratory guidelines, including not only the guidelines that cite our reviews, but other relevant guidelines that may be helpful to our review authors and others with an interest in respiratory medicine.
Objectives: To create an open database of respiratory guidelines.
Methods: We began with a known set of guidelines acquired through general knowledge of the topic area. We set up a monthly search alert in PubMed. The search was set up in January 2015, and run back over 2014. Older guidelines were identified by checking major respiratory society websites. We use Zotero Groups to manage the database. It is a public group, with closed membership. Anyone can view the records, but membership is required to edit the database. The database was promoted through social media, and is linked on the Airways Group website.
Results: We structured the database around disease categories by creating individual collections. The database of guidelines includes asthma, wheeze, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), bronchiectasis, obstructive sleep apnoea, chronic cough, interstitial lung diseases, and pulmonary hypertension. We also have collections for emergency care and physiotherapy.
Conclusions: We established a reference collection of respiratory guidelines, free for all to view. It has been compiled through pragmatic methods using a simple search strategy and is not an exhaustive collection. We would like to develop this database further, get more people involved in contributing guidelines, and seek feedback.
Objectives: To create an open database of respiratory guidelines.
Methods: We began with a known set of guidelines acquired through general knowledge of the topic area. We set up a monthly search alert in PubMed. The search was set up in January 2015, and run back over 2014. Older guidelines were identified by checking major respiratory society websites. We use Zotero Groups to manage the database. It is a public group, with closed membership. Anyone can view the records, but membership is required to edit the database. The database was promoted through social media, and is linked on the Airways Group website.
Results: We structured the database around disease categories by creating individual collections. The database of guidelines includes asthma, wheeze, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), bronchiectasis, obstructive sleep apnoea, chronic cough, interstitial lung diseases, and pulmonary hypertension. We also have collections for emergency care and physiotherapy.
Conclusions: We established a reference collection of respiratory guidelines, free for all to view. It has been compiled through pragmatic methods using a simple search strategy and is not an exhaustive collection. We would like to develop this database further, get more people involved in contributing guidelines, and seek feedback.