Table 1.

Characteristics of the included guidelines (n ​= ​15).

Author/ Year/Country	Organisational affiliation	Funding body	Target group	Guideline development group	Guideline review/journal publication	Guideline update	Evidence base methods	LoE	SoR
AAOS 2021 US [36]	AAOS	AAOS	Orthopaedic surgeons, other healthcare providers, medical practitioners	Multidisciplinary	Internal and external N	5 years	SLR GRADE	Y	Y
VADoD 2020 US [38]	Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defence (DoD)	VADoD	Primary care providers or specialists	Multidisciplinary	Internal and external N	NR	SLR GRADE	N	Y
Zhang 2020 China [32]	Rheumatology and Immunology Specialized Committee, Cross-Straits Medicine Exchange Association	Rheumatology and Immunology Expert Committee of the Cross-Strait medical and Health Exchange Association	Chinese clinicians, specialists, professionals involved in management of OA	Multidisciplinary	Internal and external Y	2022	SLR GRADE RIGHT checklist	Y	Y
Kolasinski 2019 US [3]	ACR	ACR and the Arthritis Foundation	Patients and clinicians	Multidisciplinary	External Y	NR	SLR GRADE	Y	Y
Bannuru 2019 US [4]	OARSI	OARSI	Clinicians	Multidisciplinary	External Y	NR	SLR GRADE	Y	Y
Bruyere 2019 Belgium [34]	ESCEO	ESCEO	Clinicians	Multidisciplinary	Internal and external Y	NR	SLR GRADE	N	Y
Ariani 2019 Italy [29]	ISR	ISR	Physicians, health professionals, patients and policy makers	Multidisciplinary	External Y	Stated (no planned date)	SLR AGREEII	Y	N
RACGP 2018 Australia [37]	RACGP	Funded in part by Medibank Better Health Foundation	General practitioners, health professionals	Multidisciplinary	External (approved by Chief Executive Officer of NHMRC) N	5 years	SLR GRADE	Y	Y
Kloppenburg 2018 The Netherlnds [28]	EULAR	EULAR	All health professionals, patients and relevant stakeholders (e.g. policy makers, health insurance companies)	Multidisciplinary	Internal Y	NR	SLR AGREEII	Y	Y
AAOS 2017 US [35]	AAOS	AAOS	Clinicians, surgeons, specialists, allied health	Multidisciplinary	Internal and External N	5 years	SLR GRADE	Y	Y
Tuncer 2017 Turkey [30]	TLAR	NR	Clinicians	Multidisciplinary	Internal Y	NR	SLR Oxman-Guyatt index and Jadad Scale	Y	Y
Rillo 2016 Venezuela [31]	PANLAR	PANLAR	NR	Multidisciplinary	Internal and External Y	NR	SLR Jadad scale	Y	Y
NICE 2014 UK [39]	NICE	NICE	Clinicians, patients	Multidisciplinary	External N	Stated (No planned date)	SLR GRADE	Y	N
Fernandes 2013 Norway [27]	EULAR	EULAR	Clinicians, healthcare providers, researchers in OA, policy makers	Multidisciplinary	Internal Y	NR	SLR EULAR Standard operating procedure	Y	Ya
MOH 2013 Malaysia [33]	MSR	Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) and MSR	Healthcare professionals, relevant stakeholders in all healthcare setting	Multidisciplinary	External N	2017	SLR Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network	Y	Y

Abbreviation.

AAOS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

ACR: American College of Rheumatology.

AGREE II: Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation II.

ESCEO: European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases.

EULAR: European League Against Rheumatism.

GRADE: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation.

ISR: Italian Society for Rheumatology.

LoE: Level of evidence.

N: No.

NHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council.

NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

NR: not reported.

MSR: Malaysian Society of Rheumatology.

OA: osteoarthritis.

OARSI: Osteoarthritis Research Society International.

PANLAR: Pan American League of Associations for Rheumatology.

RACGP: Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners.

RIGHT: Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare.

SLR: systematic literature review.

SoR: strength of recommendation.

TLAR: Turkish League Against Rheumatism.

VADoD: Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defence.

Y: Yes.

^aPresented as Level of agreement.