Assessment of the strength of recommendation and quality of evidence: GRADE checklist. A descriptive study.

Background: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) is a tool for assessing evidence produced in synthesis reports.

Objectives: To present the translation into Portuguese of the GRADE checklist, whose original version is in English, and to describe and explain each topic, in order to provide examples to researchers and professionals who will use the tool.

Design And Setting: Descriptive study developed at Centro Universitário Tiradentes, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.