Novel quality of evidence assessment in new European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice – 2012 Review article

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Marcin Grabowski

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Most of guidelines use classes and levels of evidence for evaluation of recommendations. Recently published the European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention presents novel quality of evidence assessment with the use of the GRADE rating system.

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Grabowski , M. (2012). Novel quality of evidence assessment in new European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice – 2012. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 5(2(15), 70-72. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/jebm/article/view/2469
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