WGO Global Guidelines - WGO Guidelines and Cascades — Development process and methodology - Anton LeMair, MD
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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS NOVEMBER 2016
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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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