The DOI matches its OpenAlex record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Users' guides to the Medical Literature. VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. B. what are the recommendations and will they help you in caring for your patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group
Abstract
CLINICAL SCENARIO At the conclusion of our first article on practice guidelines1in this series, we left you examining the full text of a practice guideline2that could help you marshal a convincing response to a colleague who disagrees with your approach to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women. Later that day, chatting with another colleague, you mention the disagreement. He shrugs, and avows, "It's entirely a matter of personal preference, the evidence doesn't support either of you." You return to the guideline, looking for how particular recommendations may be justified and adapted to your patient's circumstances. WHAT ARE THE RECOMMENDATIONS? Are Practical, Clinically Important, Recommendations Made? To be useful, recommendations should give practical, unambiguous advice about a specific health problem. For guidelines about managing health conditions, you should determine if the intent is to prevent, screen for, diagnose, treat, or palliate the disorder. For guidelines about
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: IX. A Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations
Guyatt, G. H. (1995) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530220066035 · Cited by 846
Cited by
Hierarchy of evidence: a framework for ranking evidence evaluating healthcare interventions
Evans, D. (2003) · Journal of Clinical Nursing · doi:10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00662.x · Cited by 993
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: IX. A Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations
Guyatt, G. H. (1995) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530220066035 · Cited by 846
Bensing, J. (2000) · Patient Education and Counseling · doi:10.1016/s0738-3991(99)00087-7 · Cited by 699
Mazuski, J. E., Sawyer, R. G., Nathens, A. B., DiPiro, J. T., Schein, M., Kudsk, K. A., & Yowler, C. (2002) · Surgical Infections · doi:10.1089/109629602761624180 · Cited by 131
Gonzales, R., Bartlett, J. G., Besser, R. E., Cooper, R. J., Hickner, J. M., Hoffman, J. R., & Sande, M. A. (2001) · Annals of Emergency Medicine · doi:10.1067/s0196-0644(01)70087-x · Cited by 45
Metadata
- Authors
- Wilson, M. C.
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Published
- 1995-11-22
- Volume
- 274
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 1630-1632
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2013150445
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 18.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Users' guides to the Medical Literature. VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. B. what are the recommendations and will they help you in caring for your patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1001/jama.274.20.1630
- The paper
- Wilson, M. C. (1995). Users' guides to the Medical Literature. VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. B. what are the recommendations and will they help you in caring for your patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.274.20.1630
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
