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Ratified Guidelines for Health Research & Publication
Criteria of relevance
For purposes of this directory, we established the following criteria of relevance for a ratified research guideline:
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Guideline (and/or criteria or standards) for
- Designing, conducting, reporting, evaluating, and/or publishing or disseminating health research (reports); includes, but not limited, to
- Clinical trials
- Health services research
- Developing guideline pertaining to any relevant category of guidelines - “guideline for (ratified research) guidelines”.
- Published and maintained by an established organization.
- Entity that produces the guideline
- Is evident in the publication (or on website, etc)
- Was formed (or its charter was expanded) to produce the guideline.
- Maintenance is explicit or implicit.
- There is an explicit statement that the entity intends to or does maintain the guideline.
- The entity’s maintenance of the guideline is implicit
- The “guideline” is an accrediting organization or SDO standard
- The current publication is an updated version (and was published within the past 10 years)
- The publication is the first version and there is reasonable inference that it is not a one-time product (and was published within the last 10 years).
- Freely accessible without charge or registration
- Excludes
- Guidelines
- Pertaining to subjects other than health research
- Not published or not maintained by an established organization, e.g., articles published in journals, written by individual authors who are not writing on behalf of an established organization
- Used by an (established) organization in its (internal) processes, but not published or otherwise accessible for general use (i.e., use by any other entity)
- Embedded in textbook
- In progress (e.g., SPIRIT)
- Embedded in textbooks
- For editorial style, including instructions for technical and/or scientific writing
- That are instances of use, e.g., report of assessment of specific study using ratified research guidelines or any other framework
- Relevant government regulations, such as those for the protection of human subjects, also “guidelines” that interpret, or are use-cases of, the application of regulations.
- "Guidelines" pertaining to the health research system or enterprise, e.g., priority setting, funding, evaluating productivity, etc.
The initial Directory is limited to relevant ratified research guidelines published in English (anywhere in the world).
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