Table 4.

Future dissemination and implementation agenda for the GRADE-CERQual approach

• Improve the accessibility of guidance on component assessments and making an overall assessment, for example by disseminating concise instructions for these

• Encourage review authors, and journals publishing qualitative evidence syntheses, to include SoQF tables in all qualitative evidence syntheses and to make GRADE-CERQual Evidence Profiles available as supplementary materials

• Explore how good examples identified in this evaluation of the application of GRADE-CERQual can be used to support training and other forms of capacity strengthening for applying the approach

• Continue to identify examples of GRADE-CERQual applications that adhere to our current reporting and fidelity criteria so that these can be used for capacity strengthening

• Explore how training and guidance materials linked to the new GRADE-CERQual interactive Summary of Qualitative Findings (iSoQ) tool could be used to strengthen capacity to apply the GRADE-CERQual approach appropriately

• Encourage the incorporation of training and guidance materials on the GRADE-CERQual approach into teaching modules on qualitative evidence synthesis and on systematic reviewing more broadly