International Congress Barcelona 2013

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How to produce top quality ERS Guidelines

Symposium
Chairs: M. Woodhead (Manchester, United Kingdom), M. Miravitlles (Barcelona, Spain)
Aims: The session is structure as follow, in order to provide key information on How to produce top quality ERS Guidelines:
- introduction to producing evidence-based guidelines and ERS requirements;
- a step by step presentation of guidelines development using the GRADE approach (formulating the right questions; rating the importance of outcomes; searching for evidence; producing evidence tables; going from evidence to recommendations);
- and description of the experience of working with a GRADE approach as a TF chair.

Producing documents for the ERS: types, requirements and processes G. Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium)
Using the GRADE approach for producing guidelines: a practical guide T. Tonia (Lausanne, Switzerland)
The experience of working with the GRADE approach as a Guidelines Chair J. Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)