The CARI Guidelines Development Process

The CARI Guidelines is an endeavour intended to improve renal health care through the production of evidence based national guidelines.

If you are interested in joining a guideline Working Group, please feel free to approach the CARI administrative office in Sydney. Inquiries about the CARI Guidelines development process are most welcome.

Development of a guideline occurs in five stages:

  1. Scoping and tasking - identification of topics and writing allocation
  2. Literature searching and writing of draft
  3. External peer review/consumer and nephrology community comment
  4. Steering Committee approval/request for changes to revised draft
  5. Editing and publication of guideline in Nephrology/uploading to CARI website

How long should this take?

Because there is a need for guidelines to reflect the latest best available evidence, a guideline is never 'finished'. However, the following times can be used as a rough guide.

Time to first draft: approx. 5 months

Time to finalised draft: approx. 5 months

Time to publication: approx. 4 months

Revising Guidelines: this will occur every three years. A literature search will be performed by the Cochrane Renal Group to locate any new trials on a guideline topic and the search results will be sent to the relevant guideline writer. It is hoped that the convenors and members of each Working Group will remain the same.

 

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