GRADE Guidelines for Environmental and Occupational Health: A new series of articles in Environment International

The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group started in 2000 as a collaboration of epidemiologists, public and other health professionals, , scientists with different backgrounds, clinicians, and guideline developers with the goal to create a unifying, transparent and sensible system for grading the certainty of evidence and making decisions for health related questions (1, 2). Since 2010, following the establishment of the inaugural GRADE Centre at McMaster University, members of the GRADE Working Group have created 16 centres and networks globally. GRADE has also supported over 20 topic-specific project groups for further methods development and has seen growing interest in application of the GRADE methodology in contexts outside of healthcare (http://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/).

Impact/Purpose

Most guidance for the application of Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group is based on decades of careful consideration and reflection from GRADE members involved in systematic review, health technology assessment, biostatistics, and guideline development methodology and use.

Citation

Morgan, R., B. Beverly, D. Ghersi, H. Schünemann, A. Rooney, P. Whaley, Y. Zhu, AND Kristina Chialton. GRADE Guidelines for Environmental and Occupational Health: A new series of articles in Environment International. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 128:11-12, (2019). [DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.04.016]

DOI: GRADE Guidelines for Environmental and Occupational Health: A new series of articles in Environment International