Table 2.

Quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in consensus and evidence based recommendations in American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines

Strength of recommendations	Quality of evidence
	High	Moderate	Low
Consensus approach (n=358):
Strong	4 (100)	18 (29)	92 (32)
Moderate	0	37 (60)	141(48)
Weak	0	7 (11)	59 (20)
Totals (%)	4 (100)	62 (100)	292 (100)
Evidence approach (n=736):
Strong	225 (89)	162 (44)	30 (27)
Moderate	26 (10)	189 (51)	39 (35)
Weak	3 (1)	19 (5)	43 (38)
Totals (%)	254 (100)	370 (100)	112 (100)