Reports of clinical practice guidelines. Each item carries its own list of reporting criteria. An item is met only when every criterion under it is addressed.
Used by guideline developers and by journals publishing guidelines. It is the reporting counterpart to the AGREE II appraisal instrument that assessors will apply to your work.
AGREE 2016 checklist items reproduced from the published guideline. Brouwers MC, Kerkvliet K, Spithoff K, on behalf of the AGREE Next Steps Consortium. The AGREE Reporting Checklist: a tool to improve reporting of clinical practice guidelines. BMJ 2016;352:i1152. Verify reproduction terms with the AGREE Enterprise.
The same form, marked against your own manuscript.
The sample above is an illustration. On your manuscript, all 23 criteria come back marked, and the ones that fall short raise a mark in the margin of the paper itself.
Met, partly met, not met or not applicable, for every item
Each item highlighted in your text, ready to amend
What is missing, how to fix it, and where in the paper it belongs
The whole form, downloadable as a marked spreadsheet