Text Clinical Practice Guidelines Using GRADE Methods

Bradley Johnston, Ph.D.

Dr. Bradley Johnston is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Nutrition (primary appointment), Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Texas A&M University. His work involves quality of life and health status measurement, and the application of randomized trial, systematic review, meta-analysis and clinical and public health guideline recommendation methods to a wide range of areas, with a particular interest in Evidence-Based Nutrition.

As the Co-Chair of the Canadian Pediatric Obesity Management Guidelines and the Director and Co-founder of EvidenceBasedNutrition.org, he leads an international consortium of researchers and research trainees developing high-quality, value-added systematic reviews and guideline recommendations on clinical and public health questions. His work has appeared in the BMJ, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and the Cochrane Library. As a thought leader in evidence-based nutrition practice and policy, Dr. Johnston chairs an annual online Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Workshop (January, February) supported by the National Institute of Health. He is also the Editor of a new series of Nutrition Users’ Guides educational articles forthcoming in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health, a collaboration with colleagues in dietetics, medicine and health research methods. The series of papers aims to serve as core curriculum for developing core competencies in evidence-based practice, providing guidance on assessing risk of bias and interpreting study results for common study designs used to evaluate nutrition interventions and exposures (randomized trials, cohort studies, systematic reviews, guidelines).

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Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Managing Pediatric Obesity