Using RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare) to evaluate the reporting quality of WHO guidelines

摘要

We rated each of the 34 (out of 35) RIGHT items with dichotomous options — ‘reported’ or ‘not reported’. The ‘reported’ option was used when the relevant information was provided in the guideline, whereas ‘not reported’” indicated that the relevant information could not be found or was unclear. RIGHT item #13a (‘Provide clear, precise and actionable recommendations’) is not applicable at the level of the guideline because it must be assessed for each individual recommendation; we therefore indicated ‘not applicable’ for all guidelines for this item and removed this item from both numerator and denominator when calculating overall proportions.