Table 1

Exclusion criteria for screening of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs)

Title and abstract screeningFull-text screeningQuality appraisal

  1. The identified literature was not a CPG

  2. The CPG was not published in the last 10 years

  3. The CPG was not in English

  4. The CPG was not developed for the selected eye conditions

  1. There was commercial funding or unmanaged conflicts of interest present

  2. Absence of affiliation of authors

  1. The average score of the two researchers for items 4, 7, 8, 12 or 22 is below 3

  2. The sum of the average score of the two researchers for all nine items is less than 45