Guidelines Review Committee
Guidelines Review Committee
The purpose of the Guidelines Review Committee (GRC) is to develop and implement procedures to ensure that WHO guidelines are based on the best available evidence and are produced in ways consistent with internationally accepted best practices.
WHO handbook for guideline development
This handbook provides detailed instructions for guideline developers on the following topics:
- application of high-quality methodology for guideline development using systematic search strategies, synthesis and quality assessment of the best available evidence to support the recommendations;
- appropriate collection and management of experts’ declared conflict of interest;
- expert group composition including content experts, methodologists, target users, policy makers, with gender and geographical balance;
- instructions for the management of group process to achieve consensus among experts;
- standards for a transparent decision-making process, taking into consideration potential harms and benefits, end-users' values and preferences;
- developing plans for implementing and adapting guidelines; and
- minimum standards for reporting.
For additional, online, chapters click on Read More on the right-hand side.
Handbook update under development 2024.
WHO COVID-19 Recommendations
In
response to the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has published thousands of emergency
interim recommendations addressing different aspects of public health and
wellbeing. To facilitate navigating these different recommendations, WHO
has developed the WHO COVID-19 Recommendations Map. This
is a catalogue of the latest technical guidance, and collates both formally
developed recommendations and actionable statements related to the clinical,
public health and health policy management of COVID-19 issued by WHO since January 2020.
For a full list
of all WHO documents related to COVID-19, please visit the
covid-19 technical guidance page.
The BIGG-REC database is a comprehensive and searchable repository of all WHO/PAHO evidence informed recommendations formulated using GRADE.
The database is searchable according to questions of interest, based on the key components of the question (PICO - population, interventions, comparators, and outcomes).
The aim of BIGG Rec is to help local, provincial, regional and jurisdictional decision-makers and health care workers adapt and adopt evidence-based recommendations.
This platform will feed on continued input from guideline developers which we encourage and users and, thus, its functions will continue to improve and it will be updated regularly to maintain relevance.
Latest WHO guidelines approved by the Guidelines Review Committee
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These guidelines outline a public health approach to strengthening and expanding HIV testing services (HTS). They present and discuss key updates...
17 July 2024
Updated recommendations for the treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Treponema...
The objectives of these present guidelines are: to provide updated evidence-informed guidance on treating infections caused by N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis...
16 July 2024
Recommendations for the treatment of Trichomonas vaginalis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Candida albicans,...
These guidelines focus on the treatment for infections caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, Mycoplasma genitalium and Candida albicans, and treatment for the...
In current food environments, energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods are readily available, heavily marketed and relatively cheap. Consumers are challenged...
12 May 2024
Guidelines for the prevention of bloodstream infections and other infections associated with the use...
In the context of the prevention of infections associated with IV catheters, these guidelines (Part 1) provide guidance on best practices for the prevention...
Addressing comorbidities and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) is a crucial component of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s End TB Strategy....
9 April 2024
Consolidated guidelines on person-centred viral hepatitis strategic information: using data to support...
This publication summarizes the approach proposed by WHO to collect, analyse, report, disseminate and use strategic information on viral hepatitis at the...
29 March 2024
Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection
Hepatitis B (HBV) infection is a major public health problem and cause of chronic liver disease. The 2024 HBV guidelines provide updated evidence-informed...
Appropriate guidelines for measuring haemoglobin and defining anaemia are crucial for both clinical and public health medicine but require consideration...
2 February 2024
Clinical management of diphtheria: guideline, 2 February 2024
The WHO Clinical management of diphtheria contains the most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people with diphtheria....
29 December 2023
WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition)...
This guideline provides global, normative, evidence-informed recommendations and good practice statements on the prevention and management of wasting and...
21 December 2023
WHO recommendations on the assessment of postpartum blood loss and use of a treatment bundle for...
In 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a Guideline Development Group to update an existing recommendation on assessing postpartum haemorrhage...