National Keynote

Assist. Prof. Miroslav Klugar

Director and founder the Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech GRADE Network, and The Czech Republic (Middle European) Centre for EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence. Head of Department of EBM and Assessment of the Healthcare Quality, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic.

Dr. Klugar is focused on the development, implementation, advocacy, and teaching of Evidence-Based Healthcare, especially on evidence synthesis and guidelines.

He is a member of several international methodological groups in Cochrane, JBI, GRADE and Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) (Cochrane Advisory Board for Evidence advocacy, GRADE-ADOLOPMENT, Diagnostic test accuracy, Umbrella reviews, GRADE for Evidence To Decision Framework, GRADE for Public Health, Actualization and Adaptation of guidelines, Rapid reviews, etc.)

As a member of JBI GRADE center and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Adelaide, Dr. Klugar is focused on the implementation and improvement of GRADE methods within systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, and public health. Dr. Klugar is chair of the Czech Society of Hyperbaric and Aviation Medicine.
 

Innovative Methods in the Development of Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines

Trustworthy guidelines need reliable methods. The state-of-the-art methods for the development of trustworthy guidelines in 2023 are based on the methodology developed by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (short GRADE) working group (WG). GRADE WG started in the year 2000 as an informal collaboration of people with interest in addressing the shortcomings of grading systems in health care. GRADE WG is evolving and cultivating GRADE methodology as there are at the moment published 35 GRADE guidance papers and more than 60 GRADE-related publications developed by members of GRADE WG. The lecture will introduce some of the innovative methods developed in recent years within the guidelines field.