Guidelines International Network

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.

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.

References

* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollenschl%C3%A4ger 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). [http://qshc.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/13/6/455 Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:455-460]

External links

* [http://www.g-i-n.net/ G-I-N Homepage]

See also

* Evidence-based medicine
* Guidelines