QUESTS Webinar: Applying GRADE-CERQual to Qualitative Evidence Synthesis

Dr Heather Ames delivered this QUESTS webinar, “Applying GRADE-CERQual to Qualitative Evidence Synthesis”, on 6 December 2018.

Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES) can contribute significantly to trials. Increasingly qualitative evidence syntheses (or systematic reviews of qualitative studies) are being conducted to bring together findings from individual qualitative studies. The Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research (GRADE-CERQual) approach is an innovative method for assessing how much confidence to place in the findings of such syntheses and aims to help the translation of findings into policy and practice.

The webinar will give a short introduction and explanation of GRADE CERQual. The presentation will discuss how GRADE CERQual was developed, when to use the approach and the four components applied when assessing the confidence in a finding from a QES.