Evidence-Based Guideline on Critical Patient Transport and Handover to ICU

Table 2

Levels of evidence and degree of recommendation, Good clinical practice, GCP, WHO, 2011.

Level	Type of evidence	Degree of recommendation
1a	Evidence-based guideline, systematic reviews of RCTs	Strongly recommended/directly applicable
1b	Systematic review	Highly recommended/directly applicable
1c	Randomized clinical trials/RCTs	Recommended/applicable
2a	Systematic reviews of case control or cohort studies.	Extrapolated evidence from other studies
3a	Nonanalytic studies, e.g., case reports and case series	Extrapolated evidence from other studies

Source: Good clinical practice, GCP, WHO, 2011.