Guidelines for the development of guidelines. PAHO and WHO issue guidelines intended to improve the development of guidelines for improving various aspects of health care and health outcomes focusing on equity and optimal resource utilization. In developing guidelines it is essential that recommendations and actions be informed by the best available research evidence. Increasingly, governments, and professional and consumer organizations are demanding a more rigorous process to ensure Evidence-informed guideline development.

Workshops

Guatemala, March 3-4, 2012. With the support of PAHO’s Guatemala office, a meeting on the development of guidelines using the GRADE methodology was held. The workshop was attended by participants from Guatemala and Ecuador. Ludovic Reveiz, from PAHO WDC and Ana Elena Chevez supported the workshop through their organization and coordination of the event. Hernando Gaitan and Carlos Grilo, from the network of collaborating centers in the Iberoamerican Center of the Cochrane Collaboration, were the workshop facilitators.

Geneva: Ludovic Reveiz traveled to Geneva in order to participate in the meeting of experts on patient security and primary care. The main objective of the meeting were to evaluate and prioritize gaps in the knowledge base related to patient security in primary care and to plan future actions.

• Guidelines for Technical Guidelines
  With the support of PAHO (Ludovic Reveiz), the Ministry of Health of Chile organized a workshop on the GRADE methodology for assessing the quality of the evidence and formulation of recommendations in the preparation of practice guidelines. The workshop was offered in Santiago de Chile the days 15 - 16 November 2011 and was attended by 27 participants from the Ministry of Health. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Holger Schünemman of the McMaster Forum and Dr. Hernando Gaitan of the Research Institute of the National University of Colombia. Dra. María Francisca Rodriguez Camus, Technology Secretary of AUGE, commented “the workshop was fantastic—the methodology good and interesting”. The Chilean Ministry is assessing how best to develop a strategic plan for implementation of the methodology and has requested support from the Research team.
• Equator Network
  Three Latin American journals, Revista Chilena de Pediatría,Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública y Acta Médica Dominicana have joined PAHO and Equator in their effort to improve research reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean. These journals are now referring their authors to the internationally approved reporting guidelines displayed on the Equator site to help them better report health studies. See more in Equator’s newsletters, available in English and Spanish.
  
• Information resources
• WHO Guidelines Review Committee
• WHO Handbook for guideline development [2012]
• PAHO/WHO Training Workshop on Guideline Development Methods

Argentina (only in Spanish)

• Dirección de Calidad de los Servicios de Salud (Programa Nacional de Garantía de Calidad de la atención médica)
• Guía para la adaptación de Guías de Práctica Clínica [2007]
• Biblioteca del SIISA (Sistema integrado de información sanitaria argentina)
  
• Resoluciones
  

Brazil (only in Spanish)

• Directrices para estudios de evaluación económica
  
• Directrices para la elaboración de parecer técnico-científico
  

Canada

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  

Colombia (only in Spanish)

• Guías de Atención Integral –GAI 
• Guía Metodológica para la elaboración de Guías de Atención Integral en el Sistema General de Seguridad Social en Salud colombiano

Chile (only in Spanish)

• Guías clínicas AUGE

Costa Rica (only in Spanish)

• Normas, protocolos y guías
  

Jamaica

• http://www.moh.gov.jm/legislation/guidelinesforms-a-lists
• http://www.moh.gov.jm/general/publication

Mexico (only in Spanish)

• CENETEC México. Catálogo Maestro de Guías de Práctica Clínica
• Comité Nacional de guías de práctica clínica 
• Programa de acción específico 2007-2012. Desarrollo de Guías de Práctica Clínica
• Herramientas para el desarrollo de guías de práctica clínica
  

Nicaragua (only in Spanish)

• http://www.minsa.gob.ni/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid

Uruguay (only in Spanish)

• http://www.msp.gub.uy/categoria_30_1_1.html
• http://www.msp.gub.uy/categoriaepidemiologia_258_1_1.html

United States of America

• National Guideline Clearinghouse

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  
• New Zealand Guidelines Group
  
• Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS)
  
• NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme 
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT)
  
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
  

Repositores

• Guideline International Network (G-I-N)
  
• CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  
• Guías de práctica clínica del sistema nacional de salud de España
  
• CISMEF (en francés) 
• PUBGLE
  
• Trip Database 

Networks and resources

• The Adapte Collaboration
  
• Redeguías
  
• International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA)
  
• AGREE Enterprise: instrumento para la evaluación de la calidad de las guías de práctica AGREE II
  
• The Cochrane Collaboration
  
• GRADE Working Group 
• INFODOCTOR

Methodological manuals for the preparation of guidelines in Spanish

• Guía para la adaptación de Guías de Práctica Clínica (Argentina) [2007]
  
• Guía Metodológica para la elaboración de Guías de Atención Integral en el Sistema General de Seguridad Social en Salud colombiano (Colombia)
• Manual para la elaboración y adaptación de guías de práctica clínica basada en la evidencia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia)
• Metodología para la elaboración de guías de atención y protocolos (Costa Rica)
  
• Elaboración de Guías de Práctica Clínica en el Sistema Nacional de Salud (España)
• Catálogo Maestro de Guías de Práctica Clínica (México)
  

Methodological manuals for the preparation of guidelines in Portuguese

• Directrices para estudios de evaluación económica
  
• Directrices para la elaboración de parecer técnico-científico
  

This page: http://bit.ly/PAHO_Guidelines