Screening for scoliosis - New recommendations, old dilemmas, no straight solutions

Table 4 Screening-addressed standards of trustworthiness for guidelines and recommendations

“How to use guidelines and recommendations about screening”, Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, 1999[28]
“Are the recommendations valid?
Is there randomized controlled trial evidence that earlier intervention works?
Were the data identified, selected and combined in an unbiased fashion?
What are the recommendations and will they help you in caring for your patients?
What are the benefits?
What are the harms?
How do these compare in different people and with different screening strategies?
What is the impact of people’s values and preferences?
What is the impact of uncertainty?
What is the cost-effectiveness?”