Evidence-Based Medicine Comes to Otolaryngology

Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent international not-for-profit organization, established in 1993, that makes up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care available worldwide. It promotes the search for evidence via clinical trials and other studies. For further information, visit www.cochrane.org/index.htm .

Steps to Writing EBM Guidelines

The five steps to creating valid evidence-based guidelines are:

• Identifying and refining the subject area
• Convening and running guideline development groups
• Assessing evidence identified by systematic literature review
• Translating evidence into recommendations
• External guideline review

For a detailed look at how AAO-HNSF leaders are developing evidence-based guidelines:

Rosenfeld R, Shiffman R. Clinical practice guidelines: a manual for developing evidence-based guidelines to facilitate performance measurement and quality improvement. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2006;135:S1-S28.

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