Guidelines International Network
| Guidelines International Network (GIN) |
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| legal form | non-profit registered association |
| founding | November 2002, Paris , France |
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Pitlochry , Perthshire PH16 5BY United Kingdom
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| main emphasis | Promotion of health care through development and use of evidence-based guidelines, knowledge transfer in health care |
| Action space | Operates worldwide |
| Chair | Duncan service |
| Website | www.gin.net |
The international guideline network Guidelines International Network ( GIN ) is a worldwide active scientific association of organizations and individuals who are active in the field of the development and application of medical guidelines . The network promotes the application of the concepts of evidence-based medicine through the use of guidelines.
Members and Organization
The network consists of 105 institutions working in the field of guideline development, dissemination and application as well as 150 individual members. A total of 53 countries from all continents are represented in the network. GIN was recognized in 2003 as a non-profit organization (charity) under Scottish law (Scottish Charity Number SC243691).
history
Against the background of the activities of an international group of scientists who had set themselves the goal of improving the quality of guidelines (so-called AGREE Collaboration), the Internat. Guideline conference of the ÄZQ proposed the establishment of an international guidelines organization and founded in Paris in November 2002 as the Guidelines International Network GIN.
goals and tasks
The organization has set itself the goal of coordinating, strengthening and supporting us in activities, cooperation and information exchange in the field of guideline work. To this end, GIN is dedicated to the following tasks:
- Promote the best possible health care through the use of evidence-based guidelines
- Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of evidence-based guideline development, adaptation, dissemination and implementation
- Promote networks and partnerships between guideline-developing organizations, end users (such as healthcare providers, decision makers and patients) and stakeholders
activities
With the International Guideline Library, the network maintains the world's largest database of regularly updated guidelines and guideline documents. More than 6000 documents are accessible in May 2018.
Every year the organization organizes a conference worldwide: Projects are developed in different working groups.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] . Retrieved May 13, 2018.
- ↑ JS Burgers, R. Grol, NS Klazinga, M. Mäkelä, J. Zaat, for the AGREE Collaboration: Towards evidence-based clinical practice: an international survey of 18 clinical guideline programs. In: Int J Qual Health Care. 15, 2003, pp. 31-45.
- ^ GIN List of members
- ↑ Development and validation of an international appraisal instrument for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines: the AGREE project. In: Quality & safety in health care. Volume 12, Number 1, February 2003, pp. 18-23. PMID 12571340 , PMC 1743672 (free full text).
- ^ J. Miller, G. Ollenschläger: Globalization of CPGs: Do we need an international guidelines network? Presentation, International Guideline Symposium CPG2002.
- ↑ G. Ollenschlaeger , C. Marshall, S. Qureshi et al .: Improving the quality of health care: using international collaboration to inform guideline programs by founding the Guidelines International Network (GIN). In: Qual Saf Health Care. 13, 2004, pp. 455-460.
- ^ Council of Europe. Developing a methodology for drawing up guidelines on best medical practice. Recommendation Rec (2001) 13 and explanatory memorandum. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2002. (PDF; 280 kB)
- ^ International Guideline Library
- ↑ Overview of the GIN congresses since 2003
- ↑ Overview of the GIN working groups