Table 3.

How categories of recommendation were decided.

Do	Published evidence for effectiveness in managing anaemia in palliative care patients OR Clear favourable benefit to risk ratio
Do not	Evidence that the approach is not effective in palliative care patients with anaemia OR Lack of high-quality evidence to support its use AND Unfavourable benefit to risk balance
Don’t know	Limited evidence for effectiveness of treating anaemia in palliative care
Strength of recommendations
Strong	A large and consistent body of evidence, such as a systematic review
Moderate	Solid empiric evidence from one or more papers OR recommended in guideline
Tentative	Limited empiric evidence