[How to draft editorial explanation for transparent and concise guideline on clinical practice--Case analysis]

Area of Science:

• Health Policy
• Medical Informatics
• Evidence-Based Medicine

Background:

• Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) require conciseness and readability for effective implementation.
• Published CPGs often lack details on their development process.
• Existing standards for CPG development do not adequately address process management.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the need for editorial explanations in clinical practice guidelines.
• To define the characteristics of an effective editorial explanation for CPGs.
• To explore how standardized editorial explanations can enhance CPG quality.

Main Methods:

• Referencing international standards for editorial explanations.
• Investigating requests for editorial explanations in CPG development.
• Analyzing the requirements for transparency, logic, and traceability in CPG explanations.

Main Results:

• Editorial explanations are crucial for detailing the CPG development process and logic.
• Transparency, logic, and traceability are key attributes of effective CPG editorial explanations.
• Standardized explanations can facilitate understanding of CPG development for users.

Conclusions:

• Editorial explanations enhance the transparency and traceability of CPG development.
• A standardized approach to editorial explanations can improve CPG quality and supervision.
• Clear explanations support smoother implementation of CPGs into clinical practice.