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dc.contributor.authorLewin, S
dc.contributor.authorBohren, M
dc.contributor.authorRashidian, A
dc.contributor.authorMunthe-Kaas, H
dc.contributor.authorGlenton, C
dc.contributor.authorColvin, CJ
dc.contributor.authorGarside, R
dc.contributor.authorNoyes, J
dc.contributor.authorBooth, A
dc.contributor.authorTunçalp, Ö
dc.contributor.authorWainwright, M
dc.contributor.authorFlottorp, S
dc.contributor.authorTucker, JD
dc.contributor.authorCarlsen, B
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T15:19:55Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-25
dc.description.abstractBackground: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to support the use of findings from qualitative evidence syntheses in decision making, including guideline development and policy formulation. CERQual includes four components for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from reviews of qualitative research (also referred to as qualitative evidence syntheses): (1) methodological limitations, (2) coherence, (3) adequacy of data and (4) relevance. This paper is part of a series providing guidance on how to apply CERQual and focuses on making an overall assessment of confidence in a review finding and creating a CERQual Evidence Profile and a CERQual Summary of Qualitative Findings table. Methods: We developed this guidance by examining the methods used by other GRADE approaches, gathering feedback from relevant research communities and developing consensus through project group meetings. We then piloted the guidance on several qualitative evidence syntheses before agreeing on the approach. Results: Confidence in the evidence is an assessment of the extent to which a review finding is a reasonable representation of the phenomenon of interest. Creating a summary of each review finding and deciding whether or not CERQual should be used are important steps prior to assessing confidence. Confidence should be assessed for each review finding individually, based on the judgements made for each of the four CERQual components. Four levels are used to describe the overall assessment of confidence: high, moderate, low or very low. The overall CERQual assessment for each review finding should be explained in a CERQual Evidence Profile and Summary of Qualitative Findings table. Conclusions: Structuring and summarising review findings, assessing confidence in those findings using CERQual and creating a CERQual Evidence Profile and Summary of Qualitative Findings table should be essential components of undertaking qualitative evidence syntheses. This paper describes the end point of a CERQual assessment and should be read in conjunction with the other papers in the series that provide information on assessing individual CERQual components.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipWHOen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipNorad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Council of Norwayen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipCochrane Methods Innovation Funden_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipSouth African Medical Research Councilen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 13, 10en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s13012-017-0689-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/121592
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherBMCen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en_GB
dc.subjectQualitative evidence synthesisen_GB
dc.subjectQualitative researchen_GB
dc.subjectMethodologyen_GB
dc.subjectResearch designen_GB
dc.subjectSystematic review methodologyen_GB
dc.subjectGRADEen_GB
dc.subjectEvidence-based practiceen_GB
dc.subjectGuidanceen_GB
dc.subjectConfidenceen_GB
dc.titleApplying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 2: How to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings tableen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-06-22T15:19:55Z
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available from BMC via the DOI in this record. en_GB
dc.descriptionAdditional materials are available on the GRADE-CERQual website (www.cerqual.org)en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1748-5908
dc.identifier.journalImplementation Scienceen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-01-25
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-06-22T15:16:12Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-22T15:19:59Z
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