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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.