Guideline appraisal with AGREE II: Systematic review of the current evidence on how users handle the 2 overall assessments

• Wiebke Hoffmann-Eßer ,

  * E-mail: wiebke.hoffmann-esser@iqwig.de

  Affiliations Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Cologne, Germany, Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), University of Witten/Herdecke, Campus Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-3794

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• Ulrich Siering,

  Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Cologne, Germany

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• Edmund A. M. Neugebauer,

  Affiliation Brandenburg Medical School – Theodor Fontane Neuruppin, Germany & University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten/Herdecke, Germany

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• Anne Catharina Brockhaus,

  Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Cologne, Germany

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• Ulrike Lampert,

  Affiliation Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Cologne, Germany

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• Michaela Eikermann

  Affiliation Medical Advisory Service of the German Social Health Insurance (MDS), Essen, Germany

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