Pre-Conference Courses

Pre-conference courses will take place on Wednesday 22 August in the conference venue. You can secure your place on the pre-conference courses by registering online. Please note that places are limited on each course so book early to secure your seat!

Clinical Guideline Development

The objectives of this course are to allow its participants to learn to scope a clinical guideline and work with a multidisciplinary team, interpret a systematic review in light of clinical expertise and health economics and write implementable recommendations.

Foreseen facilitators: Hugh McGuire (UK), Roz Ullman (UK) and Wendy Riches (UK).

Fees:	G-I-N member - €190 + 19% VAT
	Non-member - €240 + 19% VAT
	Student, patient/consumer rep, lower income - €110 + 19% VAT

For more information on this course, please visit:
http://www.g-i-n.net/events/9th-conference/clinical-guideline-development-course

To register, click here

German Language Symposium

The symposium will offer organisations and experts from German-speaking countries a forum to discuss organisational, methodological and content-related aspects of clinical practice guidelines and quality improvement taking into account their individual tasks and experiences. To this aim, workshops divided into three topic streams will be offered. In addition, country specific parallel-sessions will address the role of guidelines in the context of quality improvement. The Austrian session will address the status quo and perspectives of evidence-based reasoning. The Swiss workshop will address evidence-based medicine and guidelines. Guidelines in the German healthcare system will be discussed with policy-makers in a podium discussion titled: "Guidelines - opportunities for healthcare in Germany?".

Fees:	G-I-N member / Leitlinien beauftragte and AWMF Leitlinienberater - €76 + 19% VAT
	Non-member - €88 + 19% VAT
	Student, patient/consumer rep, lower income - €38 + 19% VAT

For more information on this course, please visit:
http://www.g-i-n.net/events/9th-conference/german-language-satellite-symposium
To register for the conference and the symposium, click here.
To register for the symposium only, click here (note: an additional fee of €15 + VAT will be charged to cover administration fees)

Guideline Implementation

This one day practical introduction to the art and science of implementing evidence-based practice and guidelines with experts who have both developed and implemented guidelines.

Facilitators: Heather Buchan (AU), Sue Huckson (AU) and Catherine Marshall (NZ).
Speakers and Panel Member: Susanne Weinbrenner (DE), Anna Gagliardi (US) and Dave Davis (US).

Fees:	G-I-N member - €190 + 19% VAT
	Non-member - €240 + 19% VAT
	Student, patient/consumer rep, lower income - €110 + 19% VAT

For more information on this course, please visit:
http://www.g-i-n.net/events/9th-conference/guideline-implementation-course

To register, click here

GRADE

This course will help you to learn to formulate a focused clinical question; move from evidence in single studies to a body of evidence by outcome; and understand the concepts of the GRADE approach to grading quality of evidence and deciding on the strength of recommendations.

Main facilitator: Holger Schünemann (CA)

Fees:	G-I-N member - €190 + 19% VAT
	Non-member - €240 + 19% VAT
	Student, patient/consumer rep, lower income - €110 + 19% VAT

For more information on this course, please visit:
http://www.g-i-n.net/events/9th-conference/grade-course

To register, click here

Health Economics in Guidelines

This one day course will cover the principles and methods of health economics and cost effectiveness analysis. Presentations and practical exercises will be used to explore the limitations and opportunities of using cost effectiveness in clinical guideline development.

Main facilitator: Prashanth Kandaswamy (UK)

Fees:	G-I-N member - €190 + 19% VAT
	Non-member - €240 + 19% VAT
	Student, patient/consumer rep, lower income - €110 + 19% VAT

For more information on this course, please visit:
http://www.g-i-n.net/events/9th-conference/health-economics-in-guidelines

To register, click here

Post-conference workshop for interested parties

Weighing and Including Different Types of Knowledge (WINDTOK) in guideline development.

25 August 2012 at 13.30 - 16.00
Facilitators: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Frode Forland
The rise of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has been of crucial importance for the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines. But despite the nuanced ideas within EBM about the importance for using different types of knowledge for different clinical questions, methodology development for guidelines has increasingly focused on appraising and including RCTs and systematic reviews of them. There are few methods in the present guideline development community that focus on assessing and including different types of knowledge. This imbalance poses problems for the usability of guidelines and marginalizes evidence that may in fact be ‘best’ for a particular issue.

In this workshop we address the question about what methods are available or lacking for weighing and including different types of knowledge, what are the experiences with these methods and how are they able to produce alternative evidence hierarchies? In this workshop we will invite people to share experiences and to discuss in some depth the challenges and developments that are needed to qualify and integrate other types of knowledge in guidelines production.