Updating, reaffirmation and sunsetting clinical practice guidelines

Updating, reaffirmation and sunsetting clinical practice guidelines: Methods from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

The Task Force has developed >20 unique guidelines since 2011. With this increasing topic volume, conducting full systematic reviews every five years to update guidelines may not be necessary or feasible. The Task Force sought a methodologically robust, transparent and efficient method to enable reaffirmation, or sunsetting (archival), of guidelines that were likely to remain unchanged. Click the PDF for the full methods.