Huan Jing Ke Xue
November 2024
Trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) in reclaimed water can pose potential ecological and health risks during long-term reuse, but the current water quality standards have not restricted their limits. For preventing and controlling the potential risks from TrOCs, an integrated method EHL for identifying priority pollutants in reclaimed water was proposed. This method followed three steps: First, a meta-analysis was performed to assess the exposure of TrOCs in reclaimed water, and a database of TrOCs exposure (E) was established.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study aimed to develop a comprehensive instrument for evaluating and ranking clinical practice guidelines, named Scientific, Transparent and Applicable Rankings tool (STAR), and test its reliability, validity, and usability.
Methods: This study set up a multidisciplinary working group including guideline methodologists, statisticians, journal editors, clinicians, and other experts. Scoping review, Delphi methods, and hierarchical analysis were used to develop the STAR tool.
Transparency Ecosystem for Research and Journals in Medicine (TERM) working group summarized the essential recommendations that should be considered to review and publish a high-quality guideline. These recommendations from editors and reviewers included 10 components of essential requirements: systematic review of existing relevant guidelines, guideline registration, guideline protocol, stakeholders, conflicts of interest, clinical questions, systematic reviews, recommendation consensus, guideline reporting and external review. TERM working group abbreviates them as PAGE (essential requirements for Publishing clinical prActice GuidelinEs), and recommends guideline authors, editors, and peer reviewers to use them for high-quality guidelines.
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