The Guidelines International Network (GIN) is an international scientific association of organisations and individuals interested and involved in development and application of evidence-based guidelines[1] and health care information.
The Network's membership consists of 115 organisations working in the field of medical guidelines and other types of healthcare guidance as well as of around 130 individual experts (March 2021).
The proposal was endorsed by health care agencies from all parts of the world such as AHRQ (USA), CBO (NL) German Agency for Quality in Medicine, NICE (UK), SIGN (UK), and NZGG (NZ).
[5] The goal of the network is to lead, strengthen and support collaboration and work within the guideline development, adaptation and implementation community.
The network organises the annual GIN Conference[8] around the globe: 2003 Edinburgh (UK), 2004 Wellington (NZ), 2005 Lyon (FR), 2007 Toronto (CA), 2008 Helsinki (FI), 2009 Lisbon (PT), 2010 Chicago (US), 2011 Seoul (KR), 2012 Berlin (DE), 2013 San Francisco (US), 2014 Melbourne (AU), 2015 Amsterdam (NL), 2016 Philadelphia (US), 2018 Manchester (UK) and 2019 Adelaide.