Objective This article is part of a series on methods for living guidelines, consolidating
practical experiences from developing living guidelines. It focuses on methods for …

Objectives To describe the key features of a continual evidence surveillance process that
can be implemented for living guidelines and to outline the considerations and trade-offs in …

Living systematic reviews (LSR) are systematic reviews that are regularly updated, allowing
new evidence to be incorporated as it becomes available. LSR are ideally suited to policy …

Introduction Living guidelines provide reliable, ongoing evidence surveillance and regularly
updated recommendations for healthcare decision-making. As a relatively new concept …

Background People with cancer have high information needs; however, they are often
inadequately met. Patient versions of clinical practice guidelines (PVGs), a special form of …

A “living” approach to clinical practice guidelines is when the identification, appraisal and
synthesis of evidence is maintained and repeated at an agreed frequency, with a clear …

Aim People with chronic kidney disease experience high rates of cardiovascular disease.
Cholesterol‐lowering therapy is a mainstay in the management but there is uncertainty in …

Background Continual evidence surveillance is an integral feature of living guidelines. The
Australian Stroke Guidelines include recommendations on 100 clinical topics and have …

Globally, considerable resources and community trust are invested in the development of
evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of a range of public health …

Aim Living guidelines aim to reduce delays in translating new knowledge into practice by
updating individual recommendations as soon as relevant new evidence emerges. We …