Psychosocial issues in evidence-based guidelines on inflammatory bowel diseases: A review

Table 3 Overview of the methods of guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel diseases: databases, search and type of consensus

Organization	Country/continent	Year	Type of IBD	Databases used	Searches until	Type of consensus
Asia Pacific Working Group on inflammatory bowel diseases	Asia	2013	IBD	English language publications in MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Trials Register in human subjects. All national and international guidelines on Ulcerative Colitis were solicited	Not reported	Modified Delphi process Canadian task force Grade A-E
NICE	United Kingdom	2013	UC	MEDLINE, Embase, Cinahl and the Cochrane Library	15th November 2012	Meta-analyses, grading the quality of evidence Evidence tables Formal consensus
ECCO	Europe	2013	UC	Medline, Central	December, 2010	Delphi process and structured consensus
Japanese Society of Gastroenterology	Japan	2013	CD	MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society	Up to 2007	Delphi process and structured consensus
NICE	United Kingdom	2012	CD	MEDLINE, Embase, Cinahl and The Cochrane Library	13th March 2012	Meta-analyses, grading the quality of evidence Evidence tables Formal consensus
British Society of Gastroenterology	United Kingdom	2011	IBD	PubMed, Medline and the Cochrane database	No details reported	Informal committee consensus
German Society of Gastroenterology	Germany	2011	UC	Medline, Central, PsycInfo	Until May 2009	Structured consensus process
Asia Pacific Working Group on IBD	Asia and Australia	2010	UC	English language publications in MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Trials Register in human subjects. All national and international guidelines on Ulcerative Colitis were solicited	No details reported	Modified Delphi process
Dutch Society for Gastroenterology		2010		Central, Medline, PsychInfo	2007	Modified Delphi process
American College of Gastroenterology	United States	2010	UC	Medline	No details reported	Informal consensus
American College of Gastroenterology	United States	2010	CD	Medline	No details reported	Informal consensus
German Society of Gastroenterology	Germany	2011	CD	Medline, Central, PsycInfo	Until April 2007	Structured consensus process
ECCO	Europe	2007	CD	Medline, Central	No details reported	Delphi process and structured consensus

IBD: Inflammatory bowel diseases; ECCO: European Crohn’s Colitis Organization; NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis.