Adaptation of clinical practice guidelines for osteoporosis in a Mexican context. Experience using methodologies...

High quality guidelines are required to enhance clinical practice, but its development is time consuming and a complex process. Adaptation might shorten development time and prevent double effort adjusting recommendations for a local context.

The aim of this article is to present our experience in a process in which we combined two methodologies for the adaptation of high quality osteoporosis CPGs for a primary health care context, with the inclusion of a formal consensus.

We began an adaptation process with ADAPTE, and required to migrate to GRADE-ADOLOPMENT methodology, based on GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist. To identify high quality clinical practice guidelines, we performed a systematic review as per the PRISMA-statement methodology (PROSPERO: CRD42019138548, August 19th, 2019); methodological quality was assessed using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation version II system. We developed a RAND/UCLA consensus to support the inclusion of good practice statements and feasibility of selected recommendations.

Thirteen clinical questions were integrated, and fracture risk was selected as the main outcome for intervention recommendations analysis. Six high quality guidelines were selected. We prepared final recommendations from selected guides in an evidence synthesis framework. After the consensus, we integrated 50 recommendations.

By starting the adaptation process with ADAPTE, we experienced a time consuming process, which we could overcome when migrating to GRADE-Adolopment in combination with a consensus panel.