In: Bohren MA, Javadi D, Vogel JP. Gender balance in WHO panels for guidelines published from 2008 to 2018 Bull World Health Organ. 2019 Jul 1;97(7):477–85.
on page 479, Table 1 should read as follows:
Table 1. Individuals contributing to WHO guideline development, by gender and role in 219 guidelines published, 2008–2018.
| Role | No. (%) of individualsa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Female | Male | Unknown gender | |
| Guideline development group member (including chair) | 4 912 (36.9) | 2 241 (45.6) | 2 606 (53.1) | 65 (1.3) |
| Guideline development group chair | 243 (1.8) | 96 (39.5) | 145 (59.7) | 2 (0.8) |
| Guideline methodologist | 282 (2.1) | 179 (63.5) | 102 (36.2) | 1 (0.4) |
| WHO steering group member | 3 721 (27.9) | 1 637 (43.9) | 2 044 (54.9) | 40 (1.1) |
| WHO headquarters staff | 3 035 (22.8) | 1366 (45.0) | 1640 (54.0) | 29 (1.0) |
| WHO regional or country office staff | 686 (5.1) | 271 (39.5) | 404 (58.9) | 11 (1.6) |
| External review group staff | 2 355 (17.7) | 1 045 (44.4) | 1 279 (54.3) | 31 (1.3) |
| Otherb | 2 059 (15.4) | 896 (43.5) | 909 (44.1) | 254 (12.3) |
| Total | 13 329 (100.0) | 5 998 (45.0) | 6 940 (52.1) | 391 (2.9) |
WHO: World Health Organization.
a Column percentages do not total 100.0% because of sub-categories (guideline development group chairs are also guideline development group members, WHO headquarters and WHO regional or country offices are part of WHO staff) overlapping with categories.
b Please see Box 1 for roles included in this group.
Note: Of 230 guidelines identified, we excluded 11 guidelines from this analysis because they did not explicitly name panel members in the guideline development group.