eTB Guidelines: Database of recommendations for TB prevention and care

ABSTRACT

The eTB database of guidelines is a freely accessible tool that collects all WHO’s recommendations on TB prevention and care and categorizes them for efficient use. It is the result of a collaboration between the WHO Global TB department, the McMaster University GRADE centre and EvidencePrime, Inc. It allows decision-makers to search and find recommendations based on their questions of interest. The recommendation is then presented in detail along with its strength and the certainty of the evidence underlying it. Moreover, links to additional information that provide a transparent link between the recommendation and the judgments based on available evidence are available, such as the Evidence to Decision tables (EtD) and other evidence synthesis products. This database will be kept up to date and grow by adding prior and future WHO TB recommendations in real time.