Method of Evaluationg, and Listing Published Clinical Practice Guidelines

【Exclusion criteria [1]】
(1) Items that can be judged to be obviously other than clinical practice guidelines based on the title
(2) Overseas guidelines or their translation
(3) If more than 5 years have passed since issuance
(4) Trial versions, drafts, public comments
(5) Items for which the main text has not been made public in publications or websites

【Exclusion criteria [2]】
(1) Those created by individuals (not issued by public or academic organizations)​
(2) Not the current version
(3) Those that can be judged not to be guidelines related to clinical practice based on the contents of description
(4) Those for which recommendation is missing.
(5) A description of the literature search method or a description of its referent is missing.​
(6) A description of the method for preparing recommendations or a description of its referent is missing.
(7) A description of the conflicts of interest or a description of its referent is missing.

【Exclusion criteria [3]】
Those for which more than half of the evaluators do not recommend the use of the guidelines in the AGREE II assessment

*AGREE II is a global evaluation on the 6 dimensions of (1) subject and objective, (2) stakeholder engagement, (3) development rigor, (4) presentation clarity, (5) applicability and (6) independence of editing, with a focus on how the guidelines are developed.