TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-creation of a step-by-step guide for specifying the test-management pathway to formulate focused guideline questions about healthcare related tests
AU - Tuut, Mariska K.
AU - Gopalakrishna, Gowri
AU - Leeflang, Mariska M.
AU - Bossuyt, Patrick M.
AU - van der Weijden, Trudy
AU - Burgers, Jako S.
AU - Langendam, Miranda W.
PY - 2024/10/16
Y1 - 2024/10/16
N2 - BackgroundGuideline development on testing is known to be difficult for guideline developers. It requires consideration of various aspects, such as accuracy, purpose of testing, and consequences on management and people-important outcomes. This can be outlined in a test-management pathway. We aimed to create and user-test a step-by-step guide for guideline developers for designing a test-management pathway.MethodsDevelopmental design with a co-creative strategy. We created a draft step-by-step guide, that was user tested in a workshop with 19 experts, and by interviewing 7 guideline panel members.ResultsOur proposed guide consists of five blocks of signalling questions: patients/population, index test(s), current practice/comparison/control, people-important outcomes, and the link between testing and outcome(s). The user testing led to refinement of the signalling questions, the use of inclusive terminology, and addition of a test-management pathway figure with detailed explanation.ConclusionsThe step-by-step guide for formulating focused guideline questions regarding healthcare related testing can help in identifying relevant characteristics of the population, tests, and outcomes and to create a test management pathway. This should facilitate the formulation of evidence-based guideline recommendations about healthcare related testing.
AB - BackgroundGuideline development on testing is known to be difficult for guideline developers. It requires consideration of various aspects, such as accuracy, purpose of testing, and consequences on management and people-important outcomes. This can be outlined in a test-management pathway. We aimed to create and user-test a step-by-step guide for guideline developers for designing a test-management pathway.MethodsDevelopmental design with a co-creative strategy. We created a draft step-by-step guide, that was user tested in a workshop with 19 experts, and by interviewing 7 guideline panel members.ResultsOur proposed guide consists of five blocks of signalling questions: patients/population, index test(s), current practice/comparison/control, people-important outcomes, and the link between testing and outcome(s). The user testing led to refinement of the signalling questions, the use of inclusive terminology, and addition of a test-management pathway figure with detailed explanation.ConclusionsThe step-by-step guide for formulating focused guideline questions regarding healthcare related testing can help in identifying relevant characteristics of the population, tests, and outcomes and to create a test management pathway. This should facilitate the formulation of evidence-based guideline recommendations about healthcare related testing.
KW - Healthcare related testing
KW - Guidelines
KW - Methodology
KW - Education in guideline methods
KW - Guidance
KW - DIAGNOSTIC-TESTS
KW - GRADE
KW - RECOMMENDATIONS
U2 - 10.1186/s12874-024-02365-5
DO - 10.1186/s12874-024-02365-5
M3 - Article
SN - 1471-2288
VL - 24
JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology
JF - BMC Medical Research Methodology
IS - 1
M1 - 241
ER -