Validity and usability testing of a health systems guidance appraisal tool, the AGREE-HS

• Main Authors: Melissa C. Brouwers (Author), Denis Ako-Arrey (Author), Karen Spithoff (Author), Marija Vukmirovic (Author), Ivan D. Florez (Author), John N. Lavis (Author), Francoise Cluzeau (Author), Govin Permanand (Author), Xavier Bosch-Capblanch (Author), Yaolong Chen (Author), On behalf of the AGREE-HS Research Team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health systems guidance (HSG) provides recommendations to address health systems challenges. No tools exist to inform HSG developers and users about the components of high quality HSG and to differentiate between HSG of varying quality. In response, we developed a tool to assist...