JAMA Netw Open 2022 May 2;5(5):e2211321. Epub 2022 May 2.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Importance: Traditional approaches to practice guidelines frequently result in dissociation between strength of recommendation and quality of evidence.
Objective: To construct a clinical guideline for pyogenic osteomyelitis management, with a new standard of evidence to resolve the gap between strength of recommendation and quality of evidence, through the use of a novel open access approach utilizing social media tools.
Evidence Review: This consensus statement and systematic review study used a novel approach from the WikiGuidelines Group, an open access collaborative research project, to construct clinical guidelines for pyogenic osteomyelitis. Read More