TY - JOUR
T1 - PRECEPT
T2 - An evidence assessment framework for infectious disease epidemiology, prevention and control
AU - Harder, Thomas
AU - Takla, Anja
AU - Eckmanns, Tim
AU - Ellis, Simon
AU - Forland, Frode
AU - James, Roberta
AU - Meerpohl, Joerg J.
AU - Morgan, Antony
AU - Rehfuess, Eva
AU - Schünemann, Holger
AU - Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun
AU - De Carvalho Gomes, Helena
AU - Wichmann, Ole
PY - 2017/10/5
Y1 - 2017/10/5
N2 - Decisions in public health should be based on the best available evidence, reviewed and appraised using a rigorous and transparent methodology. The Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health (PRECEPT) defined a methodology for evaluating and grading evidence in infectious disease epidemiology, prevention and control that takes different domains and question types into consideration. The methodology rates evidence in four domains: disease burden, risk factors, diagnostics and intervention. The framework guiding it has four steps going from overarching questions to an evidence statement. In step 1, approaches for identifying relevant key areas and developing specific questions to guide systematic evidence searches are described. In step 2, methodological guidance for conducting systematic reviews is provided; 15 study quality appraisal tools are proposed and an algorithm is given for matching a given study design with a tool. In step 3, a standardised evidence-grading scheme using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working Group (GRADE) methodology is provided, whereby findings are documented in evidence profiles. Step 4 consists of preparing a narrative evidence summary. Users of this framework should be able to evaluate and grade scientific evidence from the four domains in a transparent and reproducible way.
AB - Decisions in public health should be based on the best available evidence, reviewed and appraised using a rigorous and transparent methodology. The Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health (PRECEPT) defined a methodology for evaluating and grading evidence in infectious disease epidemiology, prevention and control that takes different domains and question types into consideration. The methodology rates evidence in four domains: disease burden, risk factors, diagnostics and intervention. The framework guiding it has four steps going from overarching questions to an evidence statement. In step 1, approaches for identifying relevant key areas and developing specific questions to guide systematic evidence searches are described. In step 2, methodological guidance for conducting systematic reviews is provided; 15 study quality appraisal tools are proposed and an algorithm is given for matching a given study design with a tool. In step 3, a standardised evidence-grading scheme using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working Group (GRADE) methodology is provided, whereby findings are documented in evidence profiles. Step 4 consists of preparing a narrative evidence summary. Users of this framework should be able to evaluate and grade scientific evidence from the four domains in a transparent and reproducible way.
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U2 - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.40.16-00620
DO - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.40.16-00620
M3 - Article
C2 - 29019317
AN - SCOPUS:85031312532
VL - 22
JO - Eurosurveillance
JF - Eurosurveillance
SN - 1025-496X
IS - 40
M1 - 16-00620
ER -