The AUB GRADE center conducted a two-day workshop entitled “Development
and Adaptation of Practice Guidelines” on February 27 and 28 2018 at the
American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Elie Akl, the director of the AUB
GRADE center, and Ms. Lara Kahale, the coordinator of the center, facilitated
the workshop. Twenty-nine administrators, nurses, physicians, and researchers
from multidisciplinary backgrounds participated in the workshop. They included
representatives from various universities, medical centers, non-governmental
organizations and the ministry of public health in Lebanon. Participants were
introduced to guideline development using the GRADE methodology and guideline
adaptation using the ‘adolopment’ methodology. They also received training in
using the online guideline development tool (GRADEPro).