International Consultation on Urological Diseases: Evidence-based medicine overview of the main steps for developing and grading guideline recommendations.

摘要

The International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD) is a non-governmental organization registered with the World Health Organisation (WHO). In the last 10 years Consultations have been organized on Benign Prostate Diease, Prostate Cancer, Urinary Stone Disease, Nosocomial Infections, Erectile Dysfunction, and Urinary Incontinence. These consultations have looked at published evidence and produced recommendations at four levels; highly recommended, recommended, optional, and not recommended. This method has been useful but the ICUD believes that there should be more explicit statements of the levels of evidence that generate the subsequent grades of recommendations.