GRADE concept paper 9: rationale and process for creating a GRADE Ontology

Paul Whaley, Brian Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Carlos Alva-Diaz, Stavros Antoniou, Antonio Bognanni, Javier Bracchiglione, Therese Kristine Dalsbø, Sean Grant, Jennifer Hunter, Alfonso Iorio, Malgorzata Lagisz, Harold Lehmann, Sheyu Li, Joerg Meerpohl, Saphia Mokrane, Cauê Monaco, Ignacio Neumann, Kevin Pottie, Shahab Sayfi, Nigar Sekercioglu, Jasvinder Singh, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, Janice Tufte, Lenny Thinagaran Vasanthan, Li Wang, Jun Xia, Xiaomei Yao, Holger Schünemann

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921
Published: 2025-11
Container: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
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@article{allodium:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921,
  title = {GRADE concept paper 9: rationale and process for creating a GRADE Ontology},
  author = {Paul Whaley and Brian Alper and Joanne Dehnbostel and Carlos Alva-Diaz and Stavros Antoniou and Antonio Bognanni and Javier Bracchiglione and Therese Kristine Dalsbø and Sean Grant and Jennifer Hunter and Alfonso Iorio and Malgorzata Lagisz and Harold Lehmann and Sheyu Li and Joerg Meerpohl and Saphia Mokrane and Cauê Monaco and Ignacio Neumann and Kevin Pottie and Shahab Sayfi and Nigar Sekercioglu and Jasvinder Singh and Bernardo Sousa-Pinto and Janice Tufte and Lenny Thinagaran Vasanthan and Li Wang and Jun Xia and Xiaomei Yao and Holger Schünemann},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Journal of Clinical Epidemiology},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - GRADE concept paper 9: rationale and process for creating a GRADE Ontology
AU  - Paul Whaley
AU  - Brian Alper
AU  - Joanne Dehnbostel
AU  - Carlos Alva-Diaz
AU  - Stavros Antoniou
AU  - Antonio Bognanni
AU  - Javier Bracchiglione
AU  - Therese Kristine Dalsbø
AU  - Sean Grant
AU  - Jennifer Hunter
AU  - Alfonso Iorio
AU  - Malgorzata Lagisz
AU  - Harold Lehmann
AU  - Sheyu Li
AU  - Joerg Meerpohl
AU  - Saphia Mokrane
AU  - Cauê Monaco
AU  - Ignacio Neumann
AU  - Kevin Pottie
AU  - Shahab Sayfi
AU  - Nigar Sekercioglu
AU  - Jasvinder Singh
AU  - Bernardo Sousa-Pinto
AU  - Janice Tufte
AU  - Lenny Thinagaran Vasanthan
AU  - Li Wang
AU  - Jun Xia
AU  - Xiaomei Yao
AU  - Holger Schünemann
PY  - 2025
JO  - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
DO  - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921
ER  -

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Whaley, P., Alper, B., Dehnbostel, J., Alva-Diaz, C., Antoniou, S., Bognanni, A., Bracchiglione, J., Dalsbø, T. K., Grant, S., Hunter, J., Iorio, A., Lagisz, M., Lehmann, H., Li, S., Meerpohl, J., Mokrane, S., Monaco, C., Neumann, I., Pottie, K., Sayfi, S., Sekercioglu, N., Singh, J., Sousa-Pinto, B., Tufte, J., Vasanthan, L. T., Wang, L., Xia, J., Yao, X., & Schünemann, H. (2025). GRADE concept paper 9: rationale and process for creating a GRADE Ontology. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921

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