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1 Adamson DJ, Qureshi S, Harbour R, Twaddle S, Kelnar C, Lowe GD. Response to: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) 84 -- National Clinical Guideline for the Management of Breast Cancer in Women (Reed, Clin Oncol 2007;19:588-590). Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists) 2007;19(8):628.

2 Alonso-Coello P, Martinez Garcia L, Carrasco JM, Sola I, Qureshi S, Burgers JS. The updating of clinical practice guidelines: insights from an international survey. Implementation science : IS 2011;6:107.

3 Atkins D, Best D, Briss PA, Eccles M, Falck-Ytter Y, Flottorp S, et al. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. BMJ 2004;328(7454):1490.

4 Atkins D, Briss PA, Eccles M, Flottorp S, Guyatt GH, Harbour RT, et al. Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: pilot study of a new system. BMC Health Services Research 2005;5(1):25.

5 Brown K, Harbour R, Petrie J. Evaluation of guidelines on diabetes medication. Annals of Internal Medicine 2012;156(10):752; author reply 3.

6 Brown P, Brunnhuber K, Chalkidou K, Chalmers I, Clarke M, Fenton M, et al. How to formulate research recommendations. BMJ 2006;333(7572):804-6.

7 Brunetti M, Shemilt I, Pregno S, Vale L, Oxman AD, Lord J, et al. GRADE guidelines: 10. Considering resource use and rating the quality of economic evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2013;66(2):140-50.

8 Burden AD, Hilton Boon M, Leman J, Wilson H, Richmond R, Ormerod AD. Diagnosis and management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in adults: summary of SIGN guidance. BMJ. 2010;341:c5623.

9 Colvin LA, Stein A, Smith BH. Managing chronic pain: a clinical challenge: new SIGN guidelines provide a practical evidence-based approach and identify research gaps. Br J Anaesth. 2014;112(1):9-12.

10 Connelly PJ, James R. SIGN guideline for the management of patients with dementia. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2006;21(1):14-6.

11 Cormie PJ, Nairn M, Welsh J. Control of pain in adults with cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines. BMJ. 2008;337:a2154.

12 Currie G, Brown K, Harbour R, Petrie J. Type 2 diabetes guidelines: keeping Scotland on the map. Diabetologia 2013;56(10):2340.

13 Dumbreck S, Flynn A, Nairn M, Wilson M, Treweek S, Mercer SW, et al. Drug-disease and drug-drug interactions: systematic examination of recommendations in 12 UK national clinical guidelines. BMJ. 2015;350:h949.

14 Duncan CW, Watson DP, Stein A. Diagnosis and management of headache in adults: summary of SIGN guideline. BMJ. 2008;337:a2329.

15 El-Ghorr A, James R, Twaddle S. SIGN is customising implementation support to every guideline. Guidelines in practice 2011;14(5):40-6.

16 Fearns N, Kelly J, Callaghan M, Graham K, Loudon K, Harbour R, et al. What do patients and the public know about clinical practice guidelines and what do they want from them? A qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research 2016;16:74.

17 Fearns N, Graham K, Johnston G, Service D. Improving the user experience of patient versions of clinical guidelines: user testing of a Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) patient version. BMC Health Services Research. 2016;16(1):37.

18 Fervers B, Remy-Stockinger M, Mazeau-Woynar V, Otter R, Liberati A, Littlejohns P, et al. CoCanCPG. Coordination of cancer clinical practice in Europe. Tumori 2008;94(2):154-9.

19 Gagliardi AR, Alhabib S. Trends in guideline implementation: a scoping systematic review. Implement Sci. 2015;10(1):54.

20 Gagliardi AR, Marshall C, Huckson S, James R, Moore V. Developing a checklist for guideline implementation planning: review and synthesis of guideline development and implementation advice. Implementation science : IS 2015;10:19.

21 Grosset DG, Macphee GJ, Nairn M. Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson's disease: summary of SIGN guidelines. BMJ. 2010;340:b5614.

22 Harbour R, Lowe G, Twaddle S. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network: the first 15 years (1993-2008). Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2011;41(2):163-8.

23 Harbour R, Miller J. A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines. BMJ 2001;323(7308):334-6.

24 Harbour RT. What about non-financial conflicts of interest? BMJ 2014;348:g1154.

25 Harder T, Abu Sin M, Bosch-Capblanch X, Bruno C, de Carvalho Gomes H, Duclos P, et al. Towards a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in public health. Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015;119(6):732-6.

26 Harder T, Takla A, Rehfuess E, Sanchez-Vivar A, Matysiak-Klose D, Eckmanns T, et al. Evidence-based decision-making in infectious diseases epidemiology, prevention and control: matching research questions to study designs and quality appraisal tools. BMC medical research methodology 2014;14:69.

27 Hathorn C, Alateeqi N, Graham C, O'Hare A. Impact of adherence to best practice guidelines on the diagnostic and assessment services for autism spectrum disorder. J Autism Dev Disord. 2014;44(8):1859-66.

28 Howard GC, Nairn M. Management of adult testicular germ cell tumours: summary of updated SIGN guideline. BMJ. 2011;342:d2005.

29 Howe TE, Shea B, Dawson LJ, Downie F, Murray A, Ross C, et al. Exercise for preventing and treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011(7):CD000333.

30 James RM, Cruickshank ME, Siddiqui N. Management of cervical cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines. BMJ. 2008;336(7634):41-3.

31 Kinsella J, James R. Guidelines in the era of realistic medicine. The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 2016;46(2):74-6. Epub 2016/12/09.

32 Liira H, Saarelma O, Callaghan M, Harbour R, Jousimaa J, Kunnamo I, et al. Patients, health information, and guidelines: A focus-group study. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2015;33(3):212-9.

33 Logue J, Thompson L, Romanes F, Wilson DC, Thompson J, Sattar N. Management of obesity: summary of SIGN guideline. BMJ. 2010;340:c154.

34 Loudon K, Santesso N, Callaghan M, Thornton J, Harbour J, Graham K, et al. Patient and public attitudes to and awareness of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review with thematic and narrative syntheses. BMC Health Services Research 2014;14:321.

35 Lowe G, Twaddle S. The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): an update. Scottish Medical Journal 2005;50(2):51-2.

36 McKenzie K, Forsyth K, O'Hare A, McClure I, Rutherford M, Murray A, et al. The relationship between waiting times and 'adherence' to the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network 98 guideline in autism spectrum disorder diagnostic services in Scotland. Autism. 2015.

37 Miller J;  Petrie J. Development of practice guidelines.  Lancet.  355(9198):82-3, 2000 Jan 8.

38 Mlika-Cabanne N, Harbour R, de Beer H, Laurence M, Cook R, Twaddle S, et al. Sharing hard labour: developing a standard template for data summaries in guideline development. BMJ Quality & Safety 2011;20(2):141-5.

39 Mlika-Cabanne N, Remy-Stockinger M, Harbour R, Twaddle S. Twaddle S. Summarizing and sharing appraised studies. Templates of the G-I-N Evidence Tables Working Group [HTAi 2010 Dublin Poster]. 2010. .  2010;

40 Morris J, Twaddle S. Anorexia nervosa. BMJ 2007;334(7599):894-8.

41 Nairn M, Stein A. Challenges in implementing GRADE. Lessons learned in changing methodologies. Presentation at Guidelines International Network Conference, 20 - 23 August 2014, Melbourne, Australia 2014.  2014;

42 Palmer K, Nairn M. Management of acute gastrointestinal blood loss: summary of SIGN guidelines. BMJ. 2008;337:a1832.

43 Petrie J. Publicising patient participation groups.   British Medical Journal Clinical Research Ed..  293(6543):369-70, 1986 Aug 9

44 Petrie J;  Harris C;  Williams G;  Patel SV;  Jeavons S;  Pringle M;  Oppenheimer PM;  Goodhead C;  Irwin G.  Personal views of the NHS--warts and all.   BMJ.  297(6640):52-5, 1988 Jul 2.

45 Schunemann HJ, Wiercioch W, Etxeandia I, Falavigna M, Santesso N, Mustafa R, et al. Guidelines 2.0: systematic development of a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise. CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal 2014;186(3):E123-42.

46 Smith BH, Hardman JD, Stein A, Colvin L. Managing chronic pain in the non-specialist setting: a new SIGN guideline. Br J Gen Pract. 2014;64(624):e462-4.

47 Smith LN, James R, Barber M, Ramsay S, Gillespie D, Chung C. Rehabilitation of patients with stroke: summary of SIGN guidance. BMJ. 2010;340:c2845.

48 Theilen U, Wilson L, Wilson G, Beattie JO, Qureshi S, Simpson D. Management of invasive meningococcal disease in children and young people: summary of SIGN guidelines. BMJ. 2008;336(7657):1367-70.

49 Thompson A, Payne K, Nairn M, Sutton M. Accounting for multi-morbidity in economic models: implications for clinical guidelines.  Presentation at Guidelines International Network Conference, 20 - 23 August 2014, Melbourne, Australia. 2014.  2014;

50 Treweek S, Oxman AD, Alderson P, Bossuyt PM, Brandt L, Brozek J, et al. Developing and Evaluating Communication Strategies to Support Informed Decisions and Practice Based on Evidence (DECIDE): protocol and preliminary results. Implementation Science 2013;8:6.

51 Twaddle S. Clinical practice guidelines. Singapore Medical Journal 2005;46(12):681-6; quiz 7.

52 Vernooij RWM, Alonso-Coello P, Brouwers M, Martínez García L, CheckUp P. Reporting Items for Updated Clinical Guidelines: Checklist for the Reporting of Updated Guidelines (CheckUp). PLOS Medicine. 2017;14(1):e1002207.

53 Wallace WH, Thompson L, Anderson RA. Long term follow-up of survivors of childhood cancer: summary of updated SIGN guidance. BMJ. 2013;346:f1190.

54 Xin Y, Manson J, Govan L, Harbour R, Bennison J, Watson E, et al. Pharmacological regimens for eradication of Helicobacter pylori: an overview of systematic reviews and network meta-analysis. BMC Gastroenterology 2016;16(1):80.

55 Xin Y, Manson J, Harbour RT, Wu O. Pharmacological Regimens for Eradication of Helicobacter Pylori: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Network Meta-Analysis. Value in Health 2014;17(7):A749.