Prioritization process for European Academy of Neurology clinical practice guidelines.

Aleksovska, Katina; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Berger, Thomas; Carvalho, Vanessa; Costa, Joao; Deuschl, Günther; Frederiksen, Kristian S; Jaarsma, Joke; Kobulashvili, Teia; Leone, Maurizio; Pavlakova, Lucia; Romoli, Michele; Vignatelli, Luca (2023). Prioritization process for European Academy of Neurology clinical practice guidelines. European journal of neurology, 30(2), pp. 305-320. Wiley 10.1111/ene.15608

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The development of high-quality clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) takes substantial time, effort, and resources. During the past years, the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) guideline production was significantly increased, so the need to develop clear, transparent, and methodologically solid criteria for prioritizing guideline topics became apparent. With this paper, we aim to define a set of criteria to be applied for prioritizing topics for future EAN guidelines, as well as the procedure for their implementation.

METHODS

After review of the literature, we identified a recent systematic review that reported on the main prioritization criteria used by health organizations. Based on these, we developed a list of 20 preliminary criteria, which were voted on through a Delphi consensus procedure, including 160 stakeholders. Finally, we established a working procedure on how to submit and select new guideline topic proposals within the EAN. This procedure was reviewed by the EAN Scientific Committee and the Board.

RESULTS

The first round, 61.3% of the participants voted, and 86% of them participated in the second round. Seven criteria were approved with this procedure. After the selection of the criteria, a prioritization procedure was launched, and the first 30 topics are reported in this paper. This bottom-up process that involved the whole EAN community was followed by a top-down process, using additional criteria for further selection by the EAN board members.

CONCLUSIONS

We describe the development of prioritization criteria to be applied in the process of topic selection for future EAN CPGs. We will perform regular reviews and adjustments of the process.

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