Background:

World Health Organization deem Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease as the fourth leading cause of death in the world. Because of its impact on Public Health, it represents a great burden from an international economic point of view, despite it is an avoidable and treatable disease. Hence it is suitable to use Clinical Practice Guidelines which are recommendations systematically developed to aid decision making about health care to improve quality, and they must be subject to a review and update of an enriching methodological rigor. There is currently many Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease but there is insufficient evidence to determine if they have the degree of methological quality for been used in clinical practice. For which, we have evaluated the quality of these Clinical Practice Guidelines in Spanish using the AGREE II instrument.

Methods:

We carried out a systematic search to find the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease published in Spanish between 2010-2017 and put a quality evaluation into effect by means of AGREE II instrument.

Results:

We got six guidelines wich achieved inclusion criteria of the study and we draw the compliance of the domains in these guidelines by means of AGREE II instrument: Scope and purpose (55.56-92.59%), Stakeholder involvement (37.04-79.63%), Rigour of development (29.86-84.72%), Clarity of presentation (90.74-100%), Applicability (5.56-63.89%) and Editorial independence (5.56-94.44%).

Conclusions:

Only one guideline got the score to classify as Very Good Fulfilling/Very Hight Score; another four got Good Fulfilling/Hight Score; and last one got Low Fulfilling/Low Score.

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