# Keep evidence certainty attached to its outcome

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## Keep evidence certainty attached to its outcome

ID: MHC-D-RESEARCH-0071 · Version: 0.1.0 · Kind: concept
Source: https://vedokrok.com/knowledge/keep-evidence-certainty-attached-to-its-outcome

One confident row does not certify the whole table.

### Use when

- A review's strongest rating is being applied to every claim about an intervention.

### Avoid when

- This card does not authorize assigning formal GRADE scores. Certainty alone also does not decide the best option for every person's preferences and circumstances.

### Explanation

GRADE certainty concerns a specified outcome across a body of evidence. Benefits, harms and longer-term outcomes can have different ratings. Read the row and its reasons before borrowing the label.

### Example

A review may be confident about a short-term symptom outcome while remaining uncertain about rare harms. The stronger rating does not fill the second gap.

### Check

Can you name the outcome, comparison and reasons belonging to the quoted certainty rating?

### Limits

- This card does not authorize assigning formal GRADE scores. Certainty alone also does not decide the best option for every person's preferences and circumstances.

### Evidence and sources

- supports: GRADE certainty is assessed for a body of evidence on a particular outcome. — cochrane-evidence-certainty. Claim basis: guidance. Claim limit: A high-certainty result is not automatically a recommendation for every person.
Source access: selected_html_passages; accessed on: 2026-09-17; inspected sections: ["14.1.1-14.1.2", "14.2.1", "14.2.2 indirectness and imprecision"].
Source note: GRADE ratings belong to bodies of evidence for specified outcomes; the corpus does not assign new GRADE ratings through these cards.
Agent scope review, 2026-10-11: Cochrane Chapter 14 assesses certainty by outcome. The example distinguishes benefit and harm ratings; no formal GRADE rating or personal treatment recommendation is supplied. (14.2.1)
- cochrane-evidence-certainty: Chapter 14: Completing Summary of findings tables and grading the certainty of the evidence — https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-14

Review: agent · Agent editorial and scoped evidence review · 2026-10-11T18:12:50Z
Published: 2026-10-11T18:15:00Z