Outline Programme

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Interactive Workshops and Panel Sessions

Implementing evidence-based guideline recommendations: progress with the DECIDE project
Guideline derived performance measures: what do guideline and performance measure developers need from each other?
Weighing and Including Different Types Of Knowledge (WINDTOK) in guideline development
Supporting champions for national evidence and skills for local implementation - NICE Fellows and Scholars share their learning
Guideline Adaptation: different methods, different experiences, mapping a way forward
Updating guidelines - a delicate balance at every stage of the process
Assessing evidence for diagnostic imaging in clinical practice guidelines
Methods of Public and Patient Involvement - a Toolkit
Challenges in the criteria-guided appraisal of conflicts of interest of guideline panellists
Enhancing the process and practice of guideline development in developing countries: What can G-I-N do to facilitate the process?
Toward a Framework for International Guideline Collaboration
Teaching critical appraisal skills to the guideline working group members - experience from three centres
Evidence tables V: Prognostic and economic evaluation templates; GINDER
Beyond clinical and cost effectiveness: how to address health equity in clinical guidelines
‘Best practice’ or patient choice: how can clinical guidelines and patient decision aids unite to improve patient experience and care?
Moving from evidence to recommendations: a framework proposal for guideline developers
De nova or adapted guideline development: which method to choose?
The GRADE approach to assessing the quality of a body of evidence and the strength of recommendations: Diagnosis
Barriers to clinical guidelines implementation from the Arab world's perspective: brainstorming the solutions

Planned Outline

	22/08/2012	23/08/2012	24/08/2012	25/08/2012
08.00-08.30	Registration	Registration	Registration	Registration
08.30-09.00	Pre-conference courses Clinical Guideline Development German Language Symposium Guideline Implementation GRADE Health Economics in Guidelines	Welcome ”ceremony”	Registration	Registration
09.00-10.30		Plenary I 10 years of G-I-N: Lessons learned and future vision The opening plenary will be dedicated to the Network itself with an interactive podium discussion where past and present G-I-N Chairs and vice-chairs are invited to take part.	Plenary III Do guidelines make a difference? Amir Qaseem: "Towards International Standards for Clinical Practice Guidelines: the G-I-N Position Paper" Jeremy Grimshaw: “Effects of guidelines on quality of care and patient outcomes” Joachim Szecsenyi: “Performance measures methodology”	Parallel sessions
10.30-11.00		Break	Break	Break
11.00-12.30		Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions	Plenary V Knowledge Translation 2020 Glyn Elwyn: “Shared decision making: fast and frugal” Iain Chalmers: “Barriers to implementation: research reporting bias and biased research agenda setting” Victor Montori: "Translating evidence into patient-centered care: the challenge of the chronic patient" Conference 2013
12.30-13.30		Lunch, poster viewing and G-I-N group meetings	Lunch, poster viewing session and G-I-N group meetings	Lunch poster viewing and G-I-N group meetings
13.30-14.00		Plenary II One guideline methodology for all? Shaun Treweek: “Can we make guidelines better? An overview of the DECIDE project” Roman Jaeschke: "New developments in GRADE” Simon Lewin: "Developing Health Systems Recommendations”	Lunch, poster viewing session and G-I-N group meetings	Post-conference workshop for interested parties: Weighing and Including Different Types of Knowledge (WINDTOK) in guideline development.
14.00-15.00			Plenary IV Patient involvement in guideline development Sophie Hill: "Evidence about consumer-oriented interventions for improving use of medicines: implications for guideline development" Loes Knaapen / Madeleine Wang: "Introduction to G-I-N PUBLIC’s Patient & Public Involvement Toolkit " Jürgen Matzat: "The patient perspective: The experience of being a patient representative in guideline development groups"
15.00-15.30		Break
15.30-16.00		Parallel sessions	Break
16.30-17.00		Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
17.00-17.30	Annual General Meeting	Poster Viewing Session	Parallel sessions
17.30-18.00		Poster Viewing Session
18.00-18.30
Evening	Welcome reception		Conference dinner