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. 2019 Jul 19:366:l4606.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.l4606.

Distinguishing opinion from evidence in guidelines

Holger J Schünemann  1   2 , Yuqing Zhang  3 , Andrew D Oxman  4   5 ; Expert Evidence in Guidelines Group
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Distinguishing opinion from evidence in guidelines

Holger J Schünemann et al. BMJ. .
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We thank Elie Akl for discussion on this topic that informed our approach and Iain Chalmers for feedback on the draft manuscript. We would like to thank all guideline panels that helped us develop our approach. Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that most authors are members of the GRADE working group; all are experts of some sort.

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