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Global Guidelines

The WGO Guidelines Library contains practice guidelines written from a viewpoint of global applicability. All WGO Guidelines are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin and Russian. WGO Guidelines go through a rigorous process of authoring, editing and peer review and are as evidence based as possible. Ultimate responsibility and editorial control lies with the WGO Practice Guidelines and Publications Committee.

Each guideline includes references to other relevant guidelines. These are collected, summarised and re-published or linked-to by WGO for the benefit of members. In many instances, there will be more than one guideline. For example guidelines on Colorectal Cancer Screening are published by WGO, but SIGN also publishes guidelines on this topic as does the New Zealand Guidelines Group and the Canadian Medical Association.

WGO is the only organisation however, who has adopted a global focus. Cascade-based WGO guidelines offer different treatment options for diagnosis and treatment depending on the resources available.
Cascade: a hierarchical set of diagnostic or therapeutic techniques for the same disease, ranked according to the resources available.
WGO Guidelines are globally applicable by the nature of their cascades, which identify other ways of achieving the best possible outcome by taking the available resources into account. In addition, each guideline review team includes non-Western experts with direct knowledge of conditions in their regions. [ read more » ] [ « close this section ]

Select a Guideline to call up the Guidelines details page. Then, click on the Graded Evidence button to read the latest graded literature for the guideline of your choice.

Copyright and disclaimer

The copyright of these Guidelines is retained by WGO. Users may download or print copies for their own use and may photocopy guidelines for the purpose of producing local protocols. However, republishing any guideline or part of any guideline, in any form, without specific authorisation from WGO is specifically prohibited. Permission to reproduce or republish WGO Guidelines or excerpts from Guidelines can be obtained from MEDCONNECT, WGO Executive Secretariat, Brünnsteinstraße 10, 81514 Munich, Germany or by email: guidelines@worldgastroenterology.org ). WGO does not endorse in any way derivative or excerpted materials based on these Guidelines and it cannot be held liable for the content or use of any such adapted products. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of these electronic WGO Guidelines, WGO cannot accept any responsibility for errors or omissions and assumes no responsibility or liability for loss or damage resulting from the use of information contained in these Guidelines.  [ read more » ] [ « close this section ]