AGREE II: Advancing guideline development, reporting, and evaluation in health care

Key points
► AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines, for Research, and Evaluation), which comprises 23 items and a user's manual, offers refinements of a new way to develop, report, and evaluate practice guidelines.
► Key changes from the original version include a new seven-point response scale, with modifications to half of the items, and a new user's manual.
► AGREE II is available online at the AGREE Research Trust website (www.agreetrust.org).