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Guideline Publications

Guideline
Prioritization of clinical questions for the Australian Living Guideline for the Pharmacological Management of Inflammatory Arthritis
Whittle SL, Glennon V, Buchbinder R
International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases. 2023;26:2410-2418
Guideline
Australian recommendations on perioperative use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in people with inflammatory arthritis undergoing elective surgery
Buchbinder R, Glennon V, Johnston RV, Brennan SE, Fong C, Edward May S, O'Neill S, Smitham P, Trevena L, Whittaker G, Wluka A, Whittle SL
Internal Medicine Journal. 2023;53(7):1248-1255
Guideline
Australian recommendations on tapering of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in inflammatory arthritis
Whittle SL, Glennon V, Johnston RV, Avery JC, Bell JS, Brennan SE, Fong C, Hissaria P, Horgan B, O'Neill S, Pisaniello HL, Trevena L, Whittaker GA, Wluka A, Buchbinder R
Internal Medicine Journal. 2022;52(10):1799-1805
Guideline
Modified Delphi study to identify priority clinical questions for the Australian living guidelines for the management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Tiller G, Renton WD, Tan J, Whittle SL, Avery J, Munro J, Buchbinder R
Pediatric Rheumatology. 2022;20(1):52

Living Evidence Methodology

Australian Living Guidelines Handbook (v1.1)
Comprehensive guidance on developing and maintaining living guidelines
Methodology
A semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence in a network meta-analysis: Part 1 – Direct comparisons
Kamso MM, Whittle SL, Pardo JP, Buchbinder R, Wells G, Deardon R, et al
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2025;112109
Methodology
A semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence in a network meta-analysis: Part 2 – Indirect and mixed comparisons
Kamso MM, Whittle SL, Pardo JP, Buchbinder R, Wells G, Deardon R, et al
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2025;112110
Methodology
'Live long and prosper': living guidelines for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Yiu ZZN, McFarlane E, Whittle SL
Rheumatology. 2025;64(1):6-8
Methodology
Methods for living guidelines: Paper 6: Insights from Australian Living Evidence Collaboration's (ALEC) use of existing systematic reviews in living guideline development
St Pierre K, Cashmore B, Cumpston MS, Hill K, McDonald S, Pattuwage L, White H, Whittle SL, Turner T, Tunnicliffe DJ
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2025
Methodology
Living recommendations do not 'flip-flop': Examining the probability of directional changes to recommendations in living guidelines
White H, Synnot A, Glennon V, Hill K, Whittle SL, Seid A, Turner T
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2025;185:111874
Methodology
Exploring the use and usefulness of living guidelines for consumers: international online survey of patients' and carers' views
Synnot A, Chakraborty S, Xue J, Cheng HZ, Berkovic D, Turner T; ALEC Consumer Advisory and Working Group; ALEC Methods and Processes Working Group
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2025;180:111671
Methodology
Crowd-sourcing and automation facilitated the identification and classification of randomized controlled trials in a living review
Kamso MM, Pardo Pardo J, Whittle SL, Buchbinder R, Wells G, Glennon V, Tugwell P, Deardon R, Sajobi T, Tomlinson G, Elliott J, Kelly SE, Hazlewood GS
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2023;164:1-8
Methodology
Methods for living guidelines: Paper 3: Selecting and prioritising questions for living guidelines
Cheyne S, Fraile Navarro D, Buttery AK, Chakraborty S, Crane O, Hill K, et al; ALEC Methods and Processes Working Group
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2023;155:73-83
Methodology
Methods for living guidelines: Paper 2: Consumer engagement in living guidelines
Synnot A, Hill K, Davey J, English K, Whittle SL, Buchbinder R, et al
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2023;155:97-107
Methodology
Methods for living guidelines: Paper 1: Introduction
Cheyne S, Fraile Navarro D, Hill K, McDonald S, Tunnicliffe D, White H, et al; ALEC Methods and Processes Working Group
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2023;155:84-96
Methodology
Crowdsourcing trainees in a living systematic review provided valuable experiential learning opportunities: a mixed-methods study
Lee C, Thomas M, Ejaredar M, Kassam A, Whittle SL, Buchbinder R, et al
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2022;147:142-150