Table 4.

GRADE assessment across specialties

Specialty	Very low	Low	Moderate	High	None available
Cardiac surgery	0 (0)	1 (25)	0 (0)	2 (50)	1 (25)
Dermatology	0 (0)	3 (33)	6 (67)	0 (0)	0 (0)
General surgery	9 (69)	3 (23)	0 (0)	1 (8)	0 (0)
Neurosurgery	5 (50)	2 (20)	1 (10)	0 (0)	2 (20)
Obstetrics and gynaecology	14 (45)	4 (13)	7 (23)	1 (3)	5 (16)
Ophthalmology	2 (20)	5 (50)	0 (0)	0 (0)	3 (30)
Orthopaedic surgery	2 (20)	6 (60)	1 (10)	0 (0)	1 (10)
Otolaryngology	1 (14)	1 (14)	4 (57)	0 (0)	1 (14)
Thoracic surgery	0 (0)	1 (50)	1 (50)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Urology	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (100)
Vascular surgery	0 (0)	1 (17)	2 (33)	0 (0)	3 (50)

GRADE, grading of recommendations, assessment, development, and evaluations.