Table 1 Criteria and outcome categories of GuidelineWatch
Criterion | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|
1. Declaration and assessment of COI | A | No declaration statement |
B | Undetailed declaration (yes/no) | |
C | Detailed declaration stating companies | |
D | Detailed declaration and external evaluation of COI (as opposed to self-assessment of the relevance of COI) | |
2. Composition of the guideline group | A | Lack of declarations |
B | More than 50% with financial COI | |
C | 25 to 50% with COI | |
D | Less than 25% with COI | |
E | All participants with full declarations and without COI | |
3. Independence of the coordinators and lead authors | A | Lack of declarations |
B | All coordinators/lead authors with COI | |
C | Some of the coordinators/lead authors with COI | |
D | All coordinators/lead authors with full declarations and without COI | |
4. Abstentions in participants with COI | A | No rule for abstentions |
B | Rule for abstentions, but no factual abstentions or voting results not documented | |
C | Partial abstentions | |
D | Fully documented abstentions of participants with COI | |
5. External public review | A | No external review |
B | External review on a publicly accessible website, not fully documented | |
C | External review and documented handling of the individual comments | |