Cancer practice guidelines status report update: all cancers

In March 2012 Capacity Enhancement Program of the Cancer Guidelines Advisory Group released a CPG status report update. Since 2008 the CEP has conducted regular updates to the SAGE Directory. In March 2011, SAGE comprised of 1158 English language clinical practice guidelines published between 2003 and 2010. An update of the database completed in March 2012 identified an additional 789 guidelines publsihed between 2010 and January 2012. The focus of this report is to provide an analysis of the new guideline data (2010 to 2012) by summarizing the demographic characteristics, development methods, scope and content, and quality of CPGs. Overall analyses were also performed for comparative purposes and to provide an overview of the entire body of cancer control guidelines. To view all guidelines available from SAGE, please click here.