Review Article

Expert Consensus on Telemedicine Management of Diabetes (2020 Edition)

Table 1

Definitions for the class of recommendation and level of evidence in this consensus.

Class of recommendationLevel of evidence

Strong recommendation>90% agreement of expert opinionsAAt least one randomized controlled trial or one high-quality meta-analysis
Recommendation70–90% agreement of expert opinionsBAt least one randomized observational study, specific subgroup analysis, and large-scale observational study
Moderate recommendation50–70% agreement of expert opinionsCNonrandomized controlled trials or expert opinions
No recommendation<50% of expert opinions