ESO Guideline Directory

GUIDELINE
DOCUMENT

Evidence-based recommendation

• Uses GRADE methodology
• Follows ESO Guideline SOP
• Provides high-quality outcome
• Offers detailed document (available online)
• Entails time-consuming process
• Is published in the ESJ

Expert Consensus Statement (ECS)

• Selected format if there is insufficient evidence to provide an evidence-based recommendation
• Presented in the guideline document with the result of a majority vote

EXPEDITED
RECOMMENDATION

• Conducted in the presence of at least one published guideline-changing RCT
• Typically answers one main PICO question
• Based on GRADE except that a formal systematic review is not mandatory
• Rapidly available on the ESO website
• Published in the ESJ

WHITE PAPER

• Expert consensus based on the available evidence
• Modified Delphi process
• Rapidly available on the ESO website
• Published in the ESJ