enGINe June 2013

We are pleased to provide you with the latest issue of enGINe and hope that you will enjoy it.

The newsletter is available both as pdf as well as readable online (by clicking on the titles and links below).

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enGINe June 2013

The newsletter is available both as a pdf as well as readable online (via the below links).

Editorial: Back to Basics

An editorial from Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH: G-I-N Trustee and Newsletter Editor.

It is May and time is flying by. I wanted to keep you in the loop and give you a mid-term report highlighting what the Board of Trustees has been doing and summarize decisions that we have made since I became the Chair last August.

G-I-N 2013 update

When this newsletter hits your inbox, there will only be just over 10 weeks to go until the conference. All abstract authors have now been notified and the sessions are being scheduled, as are all of the plenary sessions.

Focus on San Francisco 2013 from the Kaiser Permanente team

There is so much to see and do in San Francisco! To help you maximize your enjoyment of the city while you are attending the G-I-N 2013 Conference, we conducted a rapid review of sights and social events in August. Below we highlight some opportunities to experience San Francisco’s scenic beauty, diverse neighborhoods, restaurants and cultural attractions.

Introducing New Members

We are delighted to welcome lots of new members, who have joined since February 2013 and we are pleased to share some information on our new additions.

News from the network

Collaboration opportunity / Calls for Interest. Guideline Implementability Tool (GItool) Directory. The African Cochrane Indaba.

Invited article on co-morbidities

As part of the G-I-N North America Webinar Series, Anand Parekh, MD, MPH, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, presented in January 2013 on multiple chronic conditions as part of guideline development and implementation. In the brief invited article that follows he addresses the G-I-N community on the importance of this topic and invites North American to share experience.

International Guideline Library update

New Publications published in the International Guideline Library – 04th March to 13th May 2013. Editor’s pick from the guidelines library update. Standards for Clinical Practice Guidelines

External events 2013

G-I-N Office
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10623 Berlin - Germany