EAST GRADE & Practice Management Guidelines Training & Resources

The following GRADE resources are used and were used by EAST in the development of Practice Management Guidelines (PMGs): 

EAST GRADE & PMG Development Guides & Templates

12 Steps to EAST Practice Management Guideline (PMG) Development, 2nd Edition (January 2022)
George Kasotakis, MD MPH FACS FCCM, Lisa Kodadek, MD, Jennifer Freeman, MD FACS, & William Chiu, MD FACS FCCM

GRADEpro Instructions for Creating Evidence Tables (2021)
EAST Data Extraction Template (2021)
Jordan M. Kirsch, DO & Julius Cheng, MD MPH

PROSPERO Instructions for Registering Systematic Reviews (2021)
Jennifer Freeman, MD FACS

Review Manager (RevMan) Web Instructions for Creating Forest Plots (2021)
Jennifer Freeman, MD

• Introduction - Dr. John Como - EAST Guidelines Committee Chair
• General GRADE Overview - Dr. Bryce Robinson
• Steps and Timing of PMG Generation in EAST - Dr. George Kasotakis - updated 1/25/2019
• Selection of Topic/PICO Question Generation - Dr. Sofya Asfaw and Dr. Nimitt Patel - updated 1/25/2019
• Literature Search, Review, and Abstraction/Quality of Evidence - Dr. Zachary Bauman & Dr. Rishi Rattan - updated 1/25/2019
• Intro to Meta-Analysis and RevMan - Dr. Amy McDonald and Dr. Jaswin Sawhney - download RevMan
• Intro to Evidence Grading and GRADEpro - Dr. Nicole Fox and Dr. Dennis Kim - download GRADEpro
• Creating Recommendations and the Manuscript- Dr. John Lunde - updated 1/25/2019

• GRADE - Ch. 1 The Past, The Present and The Future- Nicole Stassen, MD, FACS, FCCM
• GRADE - Ch. 2 Common Pitfalls- Bryce Robinson, MD, MS, FACS, FCCM
• GRADE - Ch. 3 The Nitty Gritty- William Chiu, MD, FACS, FCCM
• GRADE - Ch. 4 Forming PICO Questions- John Como, MD, MPH, FACS
• GRADE - Ch. 5 Using GRADEPro- Nicole Fox, MD, MPH, FACS
• GRADE - Ch. 6 Using RevMan- Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS
• GRADE - Ch. 7 Rating the Evidence- Andy Kerwin, MD, FACS
• GRADE - Ch. 8 Creating Recommendations- John Lunde, DNP, AGA-CNP
• GRADE - Ch. 9 From GRADE to Publication- Bryce Robinson, MD, MS, FACS, FCCM

• The special Practice Management Guidelines supplement has been published by the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery - November 2012.  This special supplement features 12 EAST Practice Management Guidelines developed and updated by EAST members.

• Andrew J. Kerwin, MD, Elliott R. Haut, MD, J. Bracken Burns, DO, John J. Como, MD, Adil Haider, MD, Nicole Stassen, MD, Philipp Dahm, MD, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Practice Management Guidelines Ad Hoc Committee
• Visit the EAST Education Center and earn CME on this topic.

• Prior to GRADE, EAST utilized Evidence Based Outcomes Measures in Practice Management Guideline Development.  The information linked below is for reference. This method is no longer used by EAST to develop Practice Management Guidelines.