How Guidelines Are Created
Guideline Development Groups (GDGs) are brought together to work on a guideline for a specific topic. Cancer Care Ontario’s Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC) follows the guideline development cycle described in the PEBC Handbook.
A multidisciplinary panel of clinicians, content experts and methodologists work together to:
- define practice questions
- identify all relevant evidence
- appraise and interpret the literature
- reach a consensus to create draft recommendations
Once draft recommendation documents are developed, they are then circulated to relevant stakeholders for external review and feedback. A summary of this feedback and the panel response is included in the final documents.
Getting Involved
Are you interested in participating in a panel or the guideline review process? Contact the Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC) at ccopg@mcmaster.ca.