British Association of Dermatologists' guidelines for the management of cutaneous warts 2014

Abstract

analyses, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and non-RCTs, case series, case reports and open studies involving warts, published in the English language from January 1999 to March 2014; search terms and strategies are detailed in the Supporting Information. The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database was also searched for 'warts' with the same time restriction. Additional relevant references were also isolated from citations in the reviewed literature. Each author screened their set of identified titles, and those relevant for first-round inclusion were selected for further scrutiny. Working in pairs, the authors then reviewed the abstracts for the shortlisted references, and the full papers of relevant material were obtained; disagreements in the final selections were resolved by discussion among the entire development group. The structure of the 2001 guidelines was then discussed and re-evaluated, with headings and subheadings decided; different coauthors were allocated separate subsections. Each coauthor then performed a detailed appraisal of the selected literature, and all subsections were subsequently collated and edited to produce the final guideline.