Who Should Participate in the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines?

Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are important tools for supporting evidence-based decision-making to clinicians. In recent years, with the increase in the number of CPGs, their quality has received more and more attention. However, for those who should participate in the development of CPGs and how to form a guideline-development group(GDG) scientifically and reasonably, the institutions and handbooks for guideline development have not yet given clear and unified requirements. Thus, we analyzed and compared the status quo of the GDG formation from the existing guidelines, the requirements and regulations for the GDG formation from different handbooks of guideline development, and the definitions and responsibilities of the guideline methodologists from different institutions. On this basis, we give our recommendations on how to form GDG.