Background: Population is growing older rapidly throughout the world in recent centuries. Healthy aging has become an extremely challenging issue. Frailty has become one of the biggest challenges in facilitating healthy aging. Several organizations have developed clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to guide patients and health-care staff to screen and manage frailty in older adults. However, these CPGs recommendations may be inconsistent, and their quality is still unknown.
Objective: To systematically review the consistency of globally available clinical practice guidelines recommendations on the screen and management of frailty, and to assessed their methodological and reporting quality.
Method: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Web of science, CNKI, WanFang data, Guidelines International Network (GIN), National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), and American Geriatrics Society (AGS) to identified related CPGs. Two reviewers will independently screen the title and abstract of all retrieved bibliographic records according to our eligibility criteria. The following information will be extracted independently: basic characteristic (e.g., title, population, development organization or individual, year of publication, country), source of evidence (e.g., whether it was systematically retrieved evidence, databases that it was searched), detail recommendation information (e.g., grading systems). Four researchers will independently assess their methodological and reporting quality using the AGREE II instrument and RIGHT checklist.
Results and conclusion: This study is ongoing, and results will be presented at Colloquium as available.