Table 2. AIRE item scores.

AIRE Scoring items	1. Purpose	2. Selection criteria	3. Organizational context	4. Quality domain	5. Healthcare process	6. Relevant professional groups included	7. Involvement	8. Formally endorsed.	9. Systematic search methods	10. Guideline recommendations or peer reviewed studies	11. Critical appraisal of supporting evidence	12. Description of numerator and denominator	13. Defined target patient population	14. Strategy for risk adjustment	15. Validity	16. Reliability	17. Discriminative power.	18. Practice pilot	19. Data collection efforts	20. Presenting and interpreting instructions
AIRE categories	1. Purpose, relevance and organizational context					2. Stakeholder involvement			3. Scientific evidence			4. Additional evidence, formulation and usage
QRC Advisor, 1995	19	16	20	20	17	10	7	7	10	10	7	9	15	8	11	9	8	7	13	8
McLoughling 2006	28	27	24	27	18	11	11	14	11	11	10	19	17	9	23	14	9	17	22	12
NSW TAG 2007	28	25	27	28	27	27	23	26	16	24	17	28	27	17	27	23	24	25	27	27
Nigam et al, 2008	24	21	22	28	27	28	26	9	21	16	11	26	19	7	11	10	9	10	12	12
Cheng et al, 2010	28	26	25	28	28	20	16	12	27	20	17	19	22	10	21	15	9	15	22	16

High AIRE scores are in bold (21–28)