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. 2025 Mar 18;51(1):142. doi: 10.1007/s00068-025-02817-7

Table 2.

Grading of recommendations

Symbol Grade of recommendation Description Wording (examples)
⇑⇑ A Strong recommendation “use…”, “do not use…”
B Recommendation “should use…”, “should not use…”
0 Open recommendation “consider using…”, “… can be considered”