Results of the training conducted by the Diretrizes project Ministry of Healthled by Moinhos de Vento Hospital Through the Institutional Development Support Program for the Unified Health System (Broadway-SUS), published last week in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, a leading international scientific journal.
Hey condition He detailed how Brazilian researchers were trained to use the GRADE system, which is officially used by the Ministry of Health in the development of clinical guidelines and in health technology assessment activities, and which determines whether the results of a scientific review are reliable. These professionals participated in the production of the Brazilian clinical guidelines of the Unified Health System (SUS). The data showed that the training brought new possibilities to the approach, leading to a wider use of the tool.
According to Diretrizes’ leader, Suina Medeiros, in the healthcare field, conducting scientific research is just as important as knowing how to use the data from these trials to provide the best treatments for patients.
“New findings on health treatments and interventions are emerging every day, but it is important to understand how confident we are in the evidence about the effects of these interventions. To do this, we use the GRADE system, which guides how we assess our confidence in estimates of effect. More than knowing whether a treatment is effective, we need to understand whether that finding comes from appropriate sources, with accurate solutions pointing in the same direction,” he highlights.
The GRADE system assigns levels of evidence that guide the strength of a health recommendation. “Having more qualified professionals is very important to better define guidelines and make stronger recommendations,” the researcher adds.
The article is the result of collaboration with the international researchers who developed the GRADE system, the Ministry of Health and the project team.
Guidelines
The main objective of the Guidelines Project, which is in its fourth three-year implementation period, is to support the development of clinical care guideline methodologies for the SUS system. Achievements over nearly ten years include the development of clinical care guidelines for diseases such as Chagas disease, heart failure, and rheumatoid arthritis. An implementation guide, methodological guidelines for the development of clinical guidelines, methodological guidelines for the GRADE system, and methodological guidelines for economic evaluation in health have also been created.
The current work aims to qualify and professionally improve the Ministry of Health’s Center for Health Technology Assessment (NATS), with the aim of developing and disseminating the methodology applied in developing clinical care guidelines and ATS.
