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Table 3 Results of the strategies*

From: Strategies for monitoring and updating clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review

Author and year

Search performance (%)

Update performance (%)

Shekelle2001[3]

208 articles reviewed/7150 articles initially identified (2,9)

13/17 CPGs (76,5)

Bosquet 2003[9]‡

118 references submitted to the working group/261 references initially identified (45,2)

NS

Gartlehner 2004[7]

Modified Shekelle et al. search: 36 eligible studies/1382 citations initially identified (2,6)

NS

 

Exhaustive search: 45 eligible studies/3687 citations initially identified (1,2)

NS

Nunes 2009[15]‡§

7 guidelines reviewed/25 guidelines initially identified (28)

0/NS recommendations

Eccles 2002[10]

Angina CPG: 59 acceptable paper/5941 citations initially identified (1)

0/NS recommendations

 

Asthma CPG: 79 acceptable paper/7560 citations initially identified (1)

0/NS recommendations

Newton 2006[14]‡§

43 studies included/19423 citations initially identified

11/NS questions

Parmelli 2010[16]

24 papers included/686 records initially screened (3,5)

6/15 recommendations (40)

Johnston 2003[8]

19 citations with impact on recommendation/80 citations initially identified (23,8)

6/20 CPGs (30)

  1. *Ordered by type of strategy and chronology; ‡Only abstract available; §Information provided by the author.
  2. Abbreviations: CPG Clinical practice guideline, NS Not stated.