Standards & Guidelines Repository
UEG and leading European societies concerned with digestive health help you provide your patients with the best care options.
European-based and English clinical practice guidelines, clinical standards, consensus, position papers and standard protocols in the field of digestive health, are available in the repository below. This fully-indexed, search-engine-driven webpage supports syntactic and intuitive searches. Publications present a clear description of a reasonable methodology and are developed without support from biomedical industry. Items have been reviewed and categorised by the Quality of Care Task Force.
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The Standards and Guidelines Repository supports syntactic search queries.
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Document Types
Addresses clinical questions; performs a systematic review of literature (specified search of literature with critical assessment, and scoring of evidence quality); elaborates specific recommendations (statements displayed separately from the other text); and weights the recommendations according to the quality of the evidence and strength of the recommendation. The statements are recommendations that should be generally observed, but with appropriate background and in a specific situation, a different action may be possible from a legal aspect.
The objective of these documents is to define the current correct way of action. Statements are not generally linked to strength of evidence. The stated actions of those statements are mandatory and can be used to judge clinical practice, while a guideline only suggests/proposes to clinicians what to do. Clinical (quality) standards developed by NICE are also included in this category.
A statement elaborated by a group of experts, based on their knowledge and personal criteria, without adhering to a pre-defined strategy of weighting the strength of the evidence supporting those criteria. A consensus is typically a document with a methodology that does not allow the reader to repeat the process and to achieve the same results. In contrast, a (clinical practice) guideline is a document with a methodology that could be replicated, and most probably the results should be the same.
Statement made by some kind of authority (academic, medical) to set up a common way of action in order to avoid variability. Statements are developed without the above mentioned guidelines methodology.
Document that has instructions to manage a process of care, a technology or procedure, based on “convenience”, neither on evidence nor on authority.
The classification of documents has been undertaken by the Standards & Guidelines Task Force to the best of their knowledge. No guarantee can be given that the classification is exhaustive.