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Objective To evaluate the scientificity, transparency and applicability of Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing published in 2022, in order to improve the quality of guidelines and consensuses.
Methods Databases including Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CBM, CNKI, WanFang database and related websites including Chinese medical journal, Hongkong and Macao medical journal were electronically searched to collect Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing from January to December 2022. A STAR ( scientificity, transparency and applicability rating) tool was used to evaluate the quality of included guidelines and consensuses by three assessors independently. Total score, scoring rate of each domain and item were adopted to analyzed the outcomes.
Results A total of 3 guidelines and 33 expert consensuses were included. The total scores ranged from 65.4 to 8.7 with a mean of 33.5±14.3, which was low quality. The quality of guidelines was moderate with average score of 55.1 and the consensuses was low with average score of 31.5. The included guidelines and consensuses had a highest score rate (52.4%) in the domain of recommendation and a lowest (0%) in the domain of registration. Among 39 items of STAR tool, the top four items including listing participants and institutions, explaining additional instructions for implementation, describing consensus method, and listing references for recommendations had a high score rate, 100%, 83.3%, 77.8%, 75.0% respectively. However, the items of registration, providing registration information, protocol could be searched on public platform and explaining the role of funding had a low score rate of 0%.
Conclusions The overall quality of the Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing published in 2022 was low, but the quality of guidelines was moderate and consensuses was low. As a medical and nursing practice guidance document, the quality of guidelines and expert consensuses should be improved by encouraging registration, strengthening management of interest conflict, enhance the rigor of guideline developing process, and expanding the dissemination.
Methods Databases including Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CBM, CNKI, WanFang database and related websites including Chinese medical journal, Hongkong and Macao medical journal were electronically searched to collect Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing from January to December 2022. A STAR ( scientificity, transparency and applicability rating) tool was used to evaluate the quality of included guidelines and consensuses by three assessors independently. Total score, scoring rate of each domain and item were adopted to analyzed the outcomes.
Results A total of 3 guidelines and 33 expert consensuses were included. The total scores ranged from 65.4 to 8.7 with a mean of 33.5±14.3, which was low quality. The quality of guidelines was moderate with average score of 55.1 and the consensuses was low with average score of 31.5. The included guidelines and consensuses had a highest score rate (52.4%) in the domain of recommendation and a lowest (0%) in the domain of registration. Among 39 items of STAR tool, the top four items including listing participants and institutions, explaining additional instructions for implementation, describing consensus method, and listing references for recommendations had a high score rate, 100%, 83.3%, 77.8%, 75.0% respectively. However, the items of registration, providing registration information, protocol could be searched on public platform and explaining the role of funding had a low score rate of 0%.
Conclusions The overall quality of the Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing published in 2022 was low, but the quality of guidelines was moderate and consensuses was low. As a medical and nursing practice guidance document, the quality of guidelines and expert consensuses should be improved by encouraging registration, strengthening management of interest conflict, enhance the rigor of guideline developing process, and expanding the dissemination.