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Evaluation of the quality of guidelines for essential tremor treatment with the AGREE II instrument

Authors: Silva, Ryan do Rosário Costa, 1992;

Evaluation of the quality of guidelines for essential tremor treatment with the AGREE II instrument

Abstract

O tremor essencial é uma perturbação neurológica reconhecida como uma das mais comuns doenças do movimento e que pode ser incapacitante e repercutir-se negativamente na qualidade de vida dos doentes. A abordagem do tremor essencial deve ser ajustada ao grau de incapacidade do doente e o actual tratamento é primariamente farmacológico, enquanto procedimentos cirúrgicos são reservados para casos mais graves e refractários. Ainda assim, muitos doentes são mal controlados e revisões da literatura apontam uma escassez de estudos direccionados à terapêutica no tremor essencial, o que resulta num limitado número de normas de orientação clínica (NOC’s) para o tratamento desta perturbação. Este artigo tem como objectivo realizar uma pesquisa sistemática da literatura para identificar todas as NOC’s disponíveis dirigidas ao tratamento do tremor essencial, quer internacionais quer regionais, para avaliar a sua qualidade metodológica usando o instrumento Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II). Também se pretende extrair as principais recomendações sobre este tópico e comparar a sua consistência. Este artigo visa beneficiar o futuro desenvolvimento de NOC’s sobre tratamento do tremor essencial que tenham superior qualidade metodológica.

Essential tremor (ET) is a neurological disorder widely recognized as one of the most common movement disorders and can sometimes be disabling, negatively affecting patient’s life quality. ET approach should be adjusted to patient’s degree of disability and current management is primarily pharmacological, while surgical procedures are usually reserved for more severe and refractory cases. Nonetheless, many patients are poorly controlled and reviews of the literature have emphasized the paucity of studies targeted at analyzing treatment options for ET, which in turn results in a limited number of clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of this disorder. The purpose of this study is to systematically identify all available international and regional guidelines addressing ET treatment and evaluate their methodological quality using the AGREE II instrument. Another objective is to extract key recommendations on this subject and compare their consistency. This article aims to benefit the future development of guidelines concerning the treatment of ET with superior methodological quality.

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2016

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Treatment, Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Médicas, Essential tremor, Guideline, Critical appraisal, Evaluation

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