Processes for Developing Plain Language Versions of Guidelines Recommendations: A Scoping Review

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI:10.1111/jep.70256

Alena Langaufova, Tereza Friessova, Dana Dolanova, Tereza Vrbova, Petra Burilova, Natalia Beharkova, Andrea Pokorna

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Abstract

Rationale

Plain language recommendations (PLRs) offer clear and understandable statements based on trustworthy guidelines.

Objective

We aimed to synthesise methodological evidence for developing PLRs in the health care context.

Methods

We followed the JBI methodology for scoping review development and the PRISMA-ScR guidelines for scoping review reporting. PLRs in the context of health care guidelines or patient versions of guidelines were included. A systematic search was run in MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), and the repositories of guideline developers until November 2023. Due to the research´s longitudinal nature, the search was updated in May 2025 to verify findings gathered so far. Reviewers extracted data independently and synthesised evidence narratively.

Results

In total, 2512 citations and 66 repositories of guideline developers were screened. Nine articles from databases and eight documents representing seven sources of evidence from guideline developers' repositories were included in the final synthesis. Information about PLRs, their development, and methodology were summarised. Various infographics are used when creating PLRs. The target groups of PLRs are, e.g. patients, policymakers, the public, and healthcare providers. The patients could be involved in creating PLRs. The developers can draw from the GIN Public Toolkit, RIGHT-PVG checklist or DISCERN. Although these methodologies generally cover the development of knowledge translation tools and patients' version of guidelines (PVGs). Numerous tools can be used to translate scientific language and to formulate PLRs.

Conclusion

We propose policy support for the conduct and implementation of PLRs for healthcare guidelines drawn from available evidence-based resources identified by our review. It is desirable to report approaches for communicating recommendations from healthcare guidelines and verify the actionability and understandability of these formats.

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制定指南建议的简单语言版本的过程：范围审查

基本原理：简单的语言建议（plr）基于可信赖的指导方针提供清晰易懂的陈述。目的：我们的目的是为在卫生保健背景下制定PLRs提供方法学证据。方法：采用JBI方法进行范围评价的制定，采用PRISMA-ScR指南进行范围评价的报告。纳入了卫生保健指南或患者版指南中的plr。在MEDLINE （Ovid）、Embase （Ovid）和指南开发者存储库中进行系统搜索，直到2023年11月。由于研究的纵向性质，研究于2025年5月更新，以验证迄今为止收集的发现。审稿人独立提取数据，并以叙事方式合成证据。结果共筛选到2512篇文献引用和66个指南编制库。来自数据库的9篇文章和来自指南开发者存储库的代表7个证据来源的8个文档被包括在最终的综合中。总结了有关PLRs的信息、它们的发展和方法。在创建plr时使用各种信息图表。公共卫生报告的目标群体是患者、政策制定者、公众和卫生保健提供者。患者可能会参与到产生plr的过程中。开发人员可以从GIN公共工具包、RIGHT-PVG清单或DISCERN中提取。尽管这些方法通常涵盖了知识翻译工具和患者指南版本（PVGs）的开发。有许多工具可用于翻译科学语言和制定PLRs。结论：我们建议从我们的综述中确定的现有循证资源中为医疗保健指南的实施提供政策支持。报告传达医疗保健指南建议的方法并验证这些格式的可操作性和可理解性是可取的。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.