Guidelines International Network
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The Guidelines International Network is an international not-for-profit association of organisations and individuals involved in clinical practice guidelines.
Founded in November 2002, G-I-N has a membership of about 80 national guideline organisation (March 2008) representing 36 countries from all continents - plus WHO.
G-I-N seeks to improve the quality of health care by promoting systematic development of clinical practice guidelines and their application into practice, through supporting international collaboration.
G-I-N's Guideline Library contains regularly-updated information about guidelines of the G-I-N membership. In March 2008 more than 5,000 documents are available.
G-I-N's office is located at the German Agency for Quality in Medicine.
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[edit] Goals
G-I-N's goals are
- To facilitate information sharing, education and knowledge transfer, and collaborative working between guideline programmes to promote best practice and avoid duplication of effort.
- To improve and harmonise methodologies for systematic guideline development in existing and new guideline programmes.
- To improve methodologies for dissemination and implementation of clinical practice guidelines and evaluation of their effects.
- To identify priorities for and support research relating to guideline development, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation; and to facilitate the application of research findings into practice.
[edit] References
- G. Ollenschlaeger, C. Marshall, S. Qureshi et al: Improving the quality of health care: using international collaboration to inform guideline programmes by founding the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N).Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:455-460
