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Ethiopia's national hypertension guideline ranks least comprehensive, addressing only ~65% of quality appraisal components.
The Ethiopian national hypertension guideline is less comprehensive and lower in quality compared to other national and international guidelines, requiring significant updates to improve hypertension care.
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Ethiopia's hypertension guideline may need revision to align with quality standards; leaves open effects on local clinical outcomes.
We selected national guidelines of five countries (USA of America, Canada, Europe, Australia and Ethiopia) and one international guideline.We used clinical guideline appraisal tool to evaluate the quality of guidelines, and comprehensiveness of the guidelines was evaluated by using a tool developed reach team.
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Mensa et al. (2020) conducted a review in Hypertension. Ethiopian national adult hypertension treatment guideline vs. International and other national guidelines was evaluated on Quality appraisal tool components addressed. The national adult hypertension treatment guideline of Ethiopia addressed only 64.7% of quality appraisal tool components and was the least comprehensive among the evaluated guidelines.
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