• 1. School of Nursing, Fudan University; Centre for Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence of Evidence-based Nursing, Fudan University; Shanghai Evidence-based Nursing Center, Shanghai, 200032, P.R.China;
  • 2. National Center for Medical Service Administration, National Health Commission, Beijing, 100044, P.R.China;
WANG Qiang, Email: jason2019@sina.cn; HU Yan, Email: huyan@fudan.edu.cn
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Objectives  To establish the quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines in China. Methods  Two focus groups’ interviews for 26 clinical nursing experts and methodological experts from China were adopted to build the quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines. Results  The quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines in China covered 5 domains and 15 items, which included scientificity/rigor, effectiveness/safety, economy, availability/feasibility, and conflict of interest. All items were from 0 to 5 scale and weighted 0.5 to 2 based on their contributions to the quality of guidelines. Conclusions  The quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines adopt the same framework with the quality criteria of guidelines in medical field and also integrate features of nursing. It provides the quality standard for Chinese clinical nursing practice guidelines.

Citation: ZHOU Yingfeng, WANG Qiang, HU Yan, XING Weijie, HUNANG Chao, LIN Weiwei. Establishment of quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines in China. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2018, 18(9): 990-994. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201804048 Copy

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