Table 1.

Characteristics of the included clinical practice guidelines

Characteristic	Malaysia [30]	Brunei [31]	Singapore [32]	Thailand [33]	Indonesia [34]	Vietnam [35]
Year of publication	2018	2019	2017	2019	2019	2018
Status of the CPG	Update from 2013 version	Update from 2002 version	Update from 2005 version	Update from 2015 version	Update from 2014 version	Update from 2015 version
Type of elaboration organization	Governmental institution	Joint collaboration of governmental institution and specialty society	Governmental institution	Specialty society	Specialty society	Specialty society
Funding/sponsorship	Industry educational grant	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
No. of GDG members	19	20	15	15	18	23
Total no. of references cited	506	127	137	99	35	Not reported
Total no. of systematic reviews cited	64	4	9	8	3	Not reported
Total no. of Cochrane reviews cited	20	2	2	0	1	Not reported
Evidence classification method	SIGN adapted	No classification	GRADE adapted	Own method	No classification	Own method

CPG: clinical practice guideline; GDG: guideline development group; GRADE: Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations; SIGN: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network