WGO Global Guidelines - WGO Guidelines and Cascades — Development process and methodology - Anton LeMair, MD

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36 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events WGO Guidelines and Cascades — Development process and methodology Anton LeMair, MD WGO Guidelines Project Amsterdam, The Netherlands For more than a decade, WGO has a Guidelines Development program publishing more than 25 titles. Year after year the WGO Guideline download and page-view statistics show a very strong growth and have now reached and topped 1 million downloads per annum while attracting over 50% of the overall traffic to all WGO website-sections. The citation of WGO Guidelines and Cascades is another indication of the (relative) impact of our guidelines – the graph below is an indication of the number of citations of some our guideline topics as provided by ResearchGate and Pubmed. Altogether, user input, the number of downloads and page-views, the percentage of WGO guidelines with Cascades (83% now, 64% in 2012), and the decreasing ‘age’ of our guidelines with Cascades indicate that the WGO Guidelines group is delivering good and effective results based on a stable process that works. One article specifically states that “The WGO (…) developed resource-cognizant cascades (…) outline management of GI dis-eases based on resource-level, which can be equally if not more effective than training centers as they can be applied universally” (1) With its program, WGO guidelines aim to close the gap between scientific progress and medical practice. Measuring the


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