Critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines for treatment of urinary incontinence: Protocol for a systematic review
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Flavia Blaseck Smiles1, Lauren Giustti Mazzei, Luciane Cruz Lopes
1Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Sorocaba, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background:
Urinary incontinence is a common complaint in all parts of the world, cause of distress, as well as significant costs for both individuals and society. The aim of this study will be to evaluate the rigor of the development of clinical practice guidelines and to identify the recommendations of interventions for urinary incontinence in adult women.
Methods:
In this systematic review, clinical practice guidelines will be identified using a prospective protocol through a systematic search of: MEDLINE (via Ovid); EMBASE (Excerpt Medical Database, via Ovid); Web of Science and Virtual Health Library. Specific databases of guidelines for clinical practice will also be searched (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, American Urological Association, and others). Reviewers, independently and in duplicate, will assess the quality of the guidelines using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE II). The results will be checked for discrepancies. Differences between the scores equal to or greater than 2 will be considered as discrepant and the final result will be decided by consensus. A comparison of the recommendations of interventions and information about the level of evidence, the degree of recommendation, the level of agreement and the level of acceptance will be described. This step will also be done independently and in duplicate, and the result will be decided by consensus. The results will be presented in tables and the descriptive statistics will be calculated for all domains of the AGREE II instrument as mean (standard deviation) and median (interquartile range).
Results:
The results derived from this study will increase the knowledge about the development of recommendations guidelines for urinary incontinence of high methodological rigor. This study may also identify key areas for future research.
Conclusion:
This study may guide health professionals, policy makers, and health policy managers in choosing the guidelines for recommendation in clinical practice.
Protocol Registration:
PROSPERO - CRD42018116517.
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