About the Authors

Carlijn R. Hooijmans

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Rob B. M. de Vries

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Maroeska M. Rovers

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Mariska M. Leeflang

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Joanna IntHout

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Kimberley E. Wever

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory Animal Experimentation (SYRCLE), Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Lotty Hooft

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Hans de Beer

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guide2Guidance, Urecht, The Netherlands

Ton Kuijpers

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dutch College of General Practitioners, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Malcolm R. Macleod

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Emily S. Sena

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gerben ter Riet

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rebecca L. Morgan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Kristina A. Thayer

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Andrew A. Rooney

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Gordon H. Guyatt

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Holger J. Schünemann

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Miranda W. Langendam

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

m.w.langendam@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

on behalf of the GRADE Working Group

The complete membership can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.