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Evidence Based Medicine on FHIR Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Clinical Decision Support. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0-ballot2 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/ebm/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

: Evidence Rating System Classifier Code System - JSON Representation

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    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem</b></p><a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem\"> </a><a name=\"hcevidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem\"> </a><p>This case-insensitive code system <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/ebm/CodeSystem/evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class=\"codes\"><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">GRADE<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-GRADE\"> </a></td><td>GRADE</td><td>Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">OCEBM2011<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-OCEBM2011\"> </a></td><td>Oxford 2011 (OCEBM)</td><td>Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine 2011 Levels of Evidence</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">AMSTAR2<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-AMSTAR2\"> </a></td><td>AMSTAR 2</td><td>A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews – version 2</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">AGREEII<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-AGREEII\"> </a></td><td>AGREE II</td><td>Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">CochraneRoB<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-CochraneRoB\"> </a></td><td>Cochrane RoB</td><td>Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool for randomized trials</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">CochraneRoB2<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-CochraneRoB2\"> </a></td><td>Cochrane RoB 2</td><td>Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 Tool for randomized trials</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">ROBIS<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-ROBIS\"> </a></td><td>ROBIS</td><td>Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">QUADAS2<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-QUADAS2\"> </a></td><td>QUADAS-2</td><td>Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies – version 2</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">ROBINSI<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-ROBINSI\"> </a></td><td>ROBINS-I</td><td>ROBINS-I instrument or assessing quality of nonrandomized studies (case-control and cohort)</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">NewcastleOttawa<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-NewcastleOttawa\"> </a></td><td>Newcastle-Ottawa Scale</td><td>NewCastle-Ottawa Scale for assessing quality of nonrandomized studies (case-control and cohort)</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">CASP<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-CASP\"> </a></td><td>CASP</td><td>Critical Appraisal Skills Programme tools</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">SIGN<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-SIGN\"> </a></td><td>SIGN</td><td>Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network grading system</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">AWMF<a name=\"evidence-rating-system-classifier-codesystem-AWMF\"> </a></td><td>AWMF</td><td>Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany</td></tr></table></div>"
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