Table 1.
AGREE II items.
Fig 1.
PRISMA-style flow diagram of the consensus guidelines search process.
Table 2.
Characteristics of the consensus guidelines included in this study.
Table 3.
Comparison of AGREE II scores (percentage of the maximum possible score for a specific domain) between consensus guidelines alone and consensus guidelines + systematic reviews.
CG: consensus guideline; CGSR: consensus guideline + systematic review). Scores are related to 19 possible comparisons. The p values refer to Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for paired samples.