This course provided participants with the opportunity to acquire skills necessary to appraise health care guidelines for rare diseases by using AGREE II, the international tool to assess the quality and reporting of health care guidelines.

The course covered the following topics:

      - Overview of the RARE- Bestpractices guideline and research

        recommendation databases

      - Basic elements of guideline development process

      - Overview of the available standards and tools for health care

        guideline development and appraisal

      - The AGREE II tool and its application to rare disease

        guidelines

After the course, from March to April 2015, participants will collaborate to the appraisal of the guidelines to be included in the RARE-Bestpractices guideline database.

Through lectures and small groups work/exercises this interactive course intend to promote quality of health care guidelines on rare diseases.

Course Director

Domenica Taruscio – Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Tutors

Michele Hilton Boon - University of Glasgow

Sonja Kersten - Comprehensive Cancer Centre the Netherlands

Paola Laricchiuta, Cristina Morciano, Domenica Taruscio – Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Karen Ritchie - Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Enrique Terol - European Commission

Scientific Secretariat

Marta De Santis, Amalia Egle Gentile, Paola Laricchiuta, Cristina Morciano – Istituto

Superiore di Sanità

Karen Ritchie – Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Course programme: 

http://www.iss.it/binary/cnmr/cont/Programme_GL_assessment_2015_01_21_1_.pdf

For more information visit www.iss.it/cnmr or www.rarebestpractices.eu