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Table 3 Final GUIDE-M

From: The Guideline Implementability Decision Excellence Model (GUIDE-M): a mixed methods approach to create an international resource to advance the practice guideline field

Tactic

Domain

Subdomain

Attribute/subattribute/elementa

Developers of content

Comprehensive

Clinical experts

Multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional

Researchers and users

Target population

Individual patients

Family members

Groups representing patients

Decision makers

Multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional

Researchers and users

Methodologists

Practice guideline experts

Knowledge synthesis experts

Health economics experts

Ethicists

Implementation experts

Knowledgeable and credible

-

-

Competing interests

Financial

-

Professional and/or academic

Advocacy

Creating content

Evidence synthesis

How: execution of methods to develop evidence base

Systematic and reproducible

Valid and reliable

What: completeness of reporting evidence base

Question

Eligibility criteria

Literature search strategy

Critical appraisal

Data extraction

Data synthesis

Reporting

When: currency of evidence base

-

Deliberations and contextualization

Clinical applicability

Clinical relevance

Patient relevance

Implementation relevance

Values

Patient/client

• Acceptability

• Preferences

Provider

• Acceptability

• Preferences

• Clinical flexibility

• Clinical judgment

Guideline developer

• Acceptability

• Preferences

Population/societal

• Acceptability

• Preferences

• Diversity

• Equity

Policy

• Acceptability

• Preferences

Feasibility

Local applicability

• Local adaption

• Application tools and strategies

Resources

• Availability of resources

• Economic evaluation

Novelty

• Compatibility

• Knowledge and skills

Communicating content

Language

Simple

Succinct

Uncomplicated

Clear

Actionable

• Specific

• Unambiguous

Effective writing

Persuasive

Framing

Relative advantage

Format

Version

Tailored

Modalities

• Electronic (dynamic, static)

• Non-electronic

Document types

Components

-

Presentation

Document layout

• Visual elements

• Length

Structure

• Match system to the real world

• Grouping/ordering

Information visualization

• Display (tables, algorithms, pictures, graphical display)

• Context (framing, vividness, depth of field, evaluability)

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