Programme G-I-N 2011

Review the programme at a glance and access a number of the presentations including plenary sessions.

Pre-conference courses

26-27 August: Developing a systematic review
28 August: Guideline implementation - Room 5
28 August: GRADE - Room 1

Annual General Meeting

28 August 2011 - Auditorium

Conference programme

More than 35 countries were be represented at the conference during the plenary sessions, workshops, short oral presentations, panel sessions and via the posters.

A number of the presentations can be accessed via this page simply by clicking on their title.

29 August 2011

7.30 - 8.30	G-I-N North America open meeting
09-10.30	Opening ceremony - Auditorium Plenary 1: "Linking evidence to practice: Guidelines and alternatives" Tsuguya Fukui (Japan):"Quality improvement by measuring and disclosing quality indicators" Gillian Leng (UK): "How effective are national strategies for getting evidence in practice?" Dave Davis (US): "The hidden intervention: using an effective educational strategy to ensure the uptake of best evidence in practice"
11-12.30	Parallel sessions
	Workshop: The rationale and challenges of developing an implementation taxonomy: A workshop for guideline implementers and researchers
	Panel session 1: Health technology assessment to guide clinical practice
	Oral session 1: Guideline development - Resource constrained settings
	Oral session 2: Guideline development - Appraising and updating
	Oral session 3: Evidence generation and synthesis - Appraising and sharing
	Oral session 4: Guideline implementation 1
12.30-14	Lunch and poster viewing sessions
14-15.30	Plenary 2: "Guidance in the absence of evidence: what can – and cannot – be done?" - Auditorium Paul Glasziou (Australia): "When are randomised trials unnecessary?" Nicola Magrini (Italy): How to make weak recommendations more transparent: what we have learnt from the use of GRADE" Hans Messersmith (Canada): "What do you do when you have done all the easy stuff? – Developing guidelines in the absence of good quality evidence"
15.45-17.00	Parallel sessions
	Workshop: The GRADE approach to assessing the quality of a body of evidence and the strength of recommendations
	Workshop: Development of public health guidance in settings with lack of evidence and lack of time
	Oral session 5: Guideline implementation 2
	Oral session 6: Guideline implementation - Best practices 1
	Oral session 7: Guideline development - Skills and resources 1
	Oral session 8: Guideline development - Methodology and best practices 1
17-18	Launch of GINDER - Room 1 G-I-N PUBLIC open meeting - Auditorium

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30 August 2011

09-10.30	Plenary 3: "Adapting guidelines for resource-constrained settings" - Auditorium Leonila Dans (Philippines): "Experiences in the Philippines: Adapting the essential newborn care guidelines: failures and successes" Karen Daniels (South Africa): "Translating evidence into policies and guidelines: findings from 3 southern African countries" Hernando Gaitan (Colombia): "Adapting or de novo development of Clinical Practice Guidelines: Colombian experience"
11-12.30	Parallel sessions
	Workshop: Guideline adaptation: making guideline development more efficient and providing opportunities for collaboration
	Workshop: Cochrane collaboration with guideline developers: A win-win situation
	Parallel session 2: Clinical Practice Guidelines development in traditional medicine in East Asia
	Oral session 9: Grading and cost considerations
	Oral session 10: Performance measures
	Oral session 11: Guideline development - Skills and resources 2
	Oral session 12: Guideline development - Skills and resources 3
12.30-14	Lunch and poster viewing sessions G-I-N Focus Group - Room 4
14-15.30	Plenary 4: "Sustainable guidelines: maintaining relevance to health policy" - Auditorium Ken Kuo (Taiwan): "Policy priority in sustaining guideline development" Lisa Askie (Australia): "International collaboration, individual patient data and prospective meta-analysis - the best evidence base for sustainable guidelines" Ilkka Kunnamo (Finland): "Implementing guidelines on populations by means of clinical decision support"
15.45-17	Parallel sessions
	Workshop: Evidence tables IV: prognostic and economic evaluation templates
	Parallel session 3: Quality of life and patient functioning in clinical guidelines: a statement of G-I-N's Allied Health Community
	Oral session 13: Traditional Asian Medicine
	Oral session 14: Guideline development - Safety and adaptation
	Oral session 15: Other guideline development
	Oral session 16: Uptake impact and outcomes
	Oral session 17: Guideline implementation - Best practices 2
17-18	Implementation working group open meeting - Room 6
19 -	Gala dinner - King Sejong Great Memorial Hall

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31 August 2011

09-10.30	Parallel sessions
	Workshop: Adaptation of guideline adaptation methodology for guideline development naïve countries
	Parallel session 4: Guidelines in Occupational Medicine
	Oral session 18: Getting the word out
	Oral session 19: Guideline development - Methodology and best practices 2
	Oral session 20: Guideline development - Skills and resources 4
	Oral session 21: Guideline implementation - Barriers and non-adherence
	Oral session 22: Development and implementation in Asian countries
11-12.30	Plenary 5: "Promoting quality of evidence and guidelines in the international community" - Auditorium Tamara Kredo (South Africa): "Agreement and Alignment - guidelines for five priority diseases in the Southern African Development Community" Richard Shiffman (USA): "Can the New IOM Standards for Guideline Development Improve Guideline Quality?” Philip van der Wees, G-I-N Chair 2010-2011: "Promoting quality of evidence and guidelines: what is G-I-N's role?" Presentation of G-I-N 2012
12.40-13.35	NHS Evidence satellite meeting - Room 1 How can we drive international improvements in the quality of guideline production? Gillian Leng (UK): "Improving guidance: The NHS Accreditation Scheme" Richard Shiffman (USA): "Harmonisation of Guideline Development Standards" Sara Twaddle (Scotland): "NHS Evidence Accreditation - SIGN case study" António Vaz Carneiro (Portugal): "AGREE"
14-15.30	Asian-Pacific Evidence-Based Medicine Network plenary
15.45-17	APEBMN Parallel sessions