Methodology of Healthcare Guidelines

Catalog description

The online course “Methods for healthcare guidelines” aims to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and practical skills to produce healthcare guidelines. Using asynchronous interactive lectures and synchronous seminars and role-play activities, students will learn about the role of guidelines in healthcare, their development process, critical appraisal skills, and stakeholder engagement. In addition, they will learn how to define clinical questions, design evidence synthesis strategies to inform the formulation of recommendations and apply the GRADE approach to assess the certainty of the evidence and move from the evidence to the decisions. By the end of the course, students will become familiar with key strategies for the dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare guidelines.