We search/collect and evaluate the clinical practice guidelines published in Japan. Bibliographic information on the clinical practice guidelines that have been evaluated as high quality in terms of the development method is published on the Minds Guideline Library, a website operated by Minds.
In addition, for the clinical practice guidelines that have been approved by academic societies and publishers holding copyrights, the full text is published sequentially on the “Minds Guideline Library”.
The evaluation and selection of the clinical practice guidelines to be published on Minds is conducted according to the following procedures.
Procedure for Evaluating, Selecting, and Listing Published Clinical Practice Guidelines
1.
Clinical Practice Guideline Search, Evaluation and Acceptance of Requests for Publication
【Minds Secretariat】
2.
Primary Screening
【Minds Secretariat】
3.
Secondary Screening
【Minds Secretariat】
4.
AGREE II Assessment (tertiary screening)
【Guideline Evaluation Expert Subcommittee】
5.
Final selection based on comprehensive evaluation
【Guideline Selection Committee】
6.
Publication of Bibliographic Information
【Minds Secretariat】
7.
Publication of the full text of the clinical practice guidelines (with permission from the copyright holder)
【Minds Secretariat】
