Table 1.

Participants' profile: academic studies, job and self-referenced experience

Academic studies and job	CPG Experience
Primary Health Care Pharmacist	Experience in development of recommendations on pharmacological treatments. Experience in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM).
Primary Health Care Pharmacist	EBM Group in Primary Health Care. Coordinator of the Asthma guideline and author of a Hypertension CPG (HBP). Methodological support for CPG developers. Using SIGN method. Workshop organizer.
Family Physician. Osakidetza (Basque Health Service).	EBM Group in Primary Health Care. Coordinator of the HBP guideline and author of a Asthma CPG. Methodological support for CPG developers. Using SIGN method. Workshop organizer.
Family Physician. Primary Health Care Management. Catalan Health Service.	Coordinator of CPG development in a Scientific Society (Semfyc) and Cochrane Collaboration. Using Oxford-CEBM system. Member of the GRADE international group. Workshop organizer.
Family Physician. Osakidetza (Basque Health Service).	EBM Group in Primary Health Care. Experience in the development of a HBP CPG. Using SIGN Method.
Primary Health Care Pharmacist	Experience in the development of a HBP CPG. Using SIGN Method.
Family Physician. Teaching Unit of Family Physician.	EBM Group in Primary Health Care. Back Pain Guideline developer and coordinator. Using SIGN Method.
Family Physician. Osakidetza (Basque Health Service).	EBM Group in Primary Health Care. Back Pain Guideline developer. Using SIGN Method.
Physician.	GUIASALUD Project. (Spanish CPG Clearinghouse)
Primary Health Care Pharmacist.	Participation in the development of a Asthma CPG. Methodological support for CPG developers. Using SIGN method.
Physician. Basque Office for Health Technology Assessment (OSTEBA).	Experience in reviewing scales for assessing quality of evidence.
Physician. OSTEBA.	Experience in carrying out recommendations for Health Technology Assessment Reports. Using the SIGN method as a reference.
Nurse. Osakidetza (Basque Health Service).	EBM Group in a Scientific Society (Osatzen). Experience in the development of a HBP CPG. Using SIGN Method.
Preventive Medicine & Public Health Specialist. OSTEBA.	Experience in carrying out recommendations for Health Technology Assessment Reports. Using the SIGN method as a reference. Methodological support (SIGN, AGREE, ADAPT.) for CPG developers.
Family Physician. Osakidetza (Basque Health Service).	EBM Group in a Scientific Society (Osatzen). Participation in the development of a HBP CPG. Using SIGN method.
Biologist PhD. OSTEBA	Experience in carrying out recommendations for Health Technology Assessment Reports. Using SIGN method as a reference.
Senior Resident of Preventive Medicine & Public Health	Currently carrying out systematic reviews. Using Jovell Scale for qualifying evidence and SIGN for grading recommendations.
Preventive Medicine & Public Health Specialist. PhD. OSTEBA.	Experience in carrying out recommendations for Health Technology Assessment Reports. Methodological support for CPG developers.
Family Physician. Osakidetza (Basque Health Service).	EBM Group in Scientific Society (Osatzen). No experience in CPG development.
Senior Resident of Preventive Medicine & Public Health.	Experience in the development of a Craneo-encephalic Trauma CPG. (SIGN and Oxford CEBM methods).