Top Achievements

• 101 organisational members
• GIN Conference in Philadelphia
• ‘Individualised Guidelines and Clinical Performance Measurement in an Era of Personalised Medicine’ (500+ attendees)
• Collaboration with Consumers United for Evidence Based Health Care established, resulting in a full day pre-conference course at GIN 2016 aimed at providing practical support and sharing international experience to facilitate successful patient or consumer involvement for guideline developers
• 3 new regional communities established – Asia, Arab & Iberoamerican
• New GIN working group established, jointly with INAHTA
• Publication of Nothacker M, Stokes T, Shaw B, Lindsay P, Sipilä R, Follmann M, Kopp I; Guidelines International Network (GIN) Performance Measures Working Group. Reporting standards for guideline-based performance measures. Implement Sci. 2016 Jan 15;11(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13012-015-0369-z
• Publication of Vernooij RWM, Wilson M, Gagliardi AR and members of the Guidelines International Network Implementation Working Group. Characterizing patient-oriented tools that could be packaged with guidelines to promote self-management and guideline adoption: a meta-review. Implement Sci 2016;11:52
• GIN African community meeting in South Africa
• GIN presentation in Switzerland on’ CPGs and Choosing Wisely’
• GIN workshops in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia