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A Reporting Tool for Practice Guidelines in Health Care: The RIGHT Statement
Yaolong Chen1, Kehu Yang1, Ana Marušic1
1From Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China; University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia; American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Cochrane Singapore, Biopolis, Singapore; Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo; Taipei Medical University-School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Cochrane China, Sichuan, China; Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China; University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Peking University, Beijing, China; and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Poor reporting of healthcare practice guidelines led to the development of the RIGHT checklist. This 22-item tool enhances guideline quality and transparency for developers, reviewers, and practitioners.
Area of Science:
- Health Services Research
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
Background:
- The quality of reporting for healthcare practice guidelines is often inadequate.
- There is a lack of standardized guidance for reporting practice guidelines in healthcare.
Purpose of the Study:
- To address the gap in reporting standards for healthcare practice guidelines.
- To develop a comprehensive checklist for reporting practice guidelines.
Main Methods:
- Established the international RIGHT (Reporting Items for practice Guidelines in HealThcare) Working Group.
- Followed existing frameworks for health research reporting and the EQUATOR Network approach.
- Developed a 22-item checklist and an explanation and elaboration statement.
Main Results:
- The RIGHT checklist includes essential items for reporting guidelines, categorized into basic information, background, evidence, recommendations, review, quality assurance, funding, and other information.
- The checklist comprises 22 essential items for reporting practice guidelines.
Conclusions:
- The RIGHT checklist provides a standard for reporting practice guidelines.
- It assists guideline developers, journal editors, peer reviewers, and healthcare practitioners in improving and implementing guidelines.
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