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Rachad Ghazal¹, Joanne Khabsa², Jessica Mroueh¹

¹Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

|November 21, 2025

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Practice guideline updates are crucial for patient care. Most organizations update based on new evidence but need better methods for communicating changes to users.

Keywords:

Guidance Guideline update Guideline-producing organizations Handbook Living guidelines Living recommendations Methodology Methods Practice guidelines Updating

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Area of Science:

Medical Practice Guidelines
Evidence-Based Medicine
Healthcare Policy

Background:

Practice guidelines are vital for patient care and policy.
Ensuring guidelines are current with the latest evidence is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the processes guideline-producing organizations use to update practice guidelines.
To analyze methods for guideline updates based on publicly available guidance documents.

Main Methods:

Descriptive summary of guidance documents from guideline-producing organizations.
Independent and duplicate assessment of eligibility and data abstraction.
Synthesis of data in textual and tabular formats.

Main Results:

107 of 133 organizations (80%) had guidance on updating processes.
The most common update trigger was new evidence (75%); 65% revisited search strategies.
Electronic publication was common (84%), but few highlighted changes (12%) or notified users (5%).

Conclusions:

The study reveals insights into practice guideline updating processes.
There is a need for improved methods in guideline updates.
Enhanced communication of updates and changes to users is critical.