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The Living Guideline: keeping the New Zealand autism guideline up to date

The Living Guideline: keeping the New Zealand autism guideline up to date

In 2009, a living guideline process was established to ensure the Guideline is updated annually to reflect new evidence.

The Living Guideline Group (LGG) is an advisory panel of sectoral experts including individuals with lived experience, educators, health professionals, and service providers. Every year, the LGG prioritises an area to be updated. A comprehensive systematic review of the topic is undertaken by independent researcher and living guideline programme director, Marita Broadstock (INSIGHT Research).

The LGG debates the quality and consistency of this evidence and its applicability within a New Zealand service and cultural context. The LGG then develop recommendations and directions for good practice – the key outputs for the work.

Following sectoral consultation, a full account of the entire process including the systematic review is published online as Supplementary Papers to the guideline.

You can find all of the Supplementary Papers and supporting materials here: https://www.whaikaha.govt.nz/about-us/programmes-strategies-and-studies/guidelines/nz-autism-guideline/supporting-materials

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