Top Achievements

  • 103 organisational members
  • GIN collaborated with Cochrane, The Campbell Collaboration, the International Society for Evidence-based Health Care and the Joanna Briggs Institute to present the first ever Global Evidence Summit in Cape Town
  • New WG  established on  Guideline Collaboration
  • Pilot scheme for new organisational members, introductory fees for first year. 5 organisations participated
  • The focus of the NMC award changed to aim at early career researchers
  • Allison Smith joined GIN team to cover maternity leave plus focus on communications and marketing
  • The manual for developing guidelines in an accelerated way was posted on the website in January 2017
  • Publication – Doust J, Vandvik PO, Qaseem A, Mustafa RA, Horvath AR, Frances A, Al-Ansary L, Bossuyt P, Ward RL, Kopp I, Gollogly L, Schunemann H, Glasziou P; Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) Preventing Overdiagnosis Working Group. Guidance for Modifying the Definition of Diseases: A Checklist. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Jul 1;177(7):1020-1025. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1302.