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Editorial

Dear Colleagues,

Presenting the 2012 G-I-N Conference Proceedings, the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) invites you to celebrate with us 10 years of G-I-N by attending the annual conference at its birthplace in Berlin, Germany, on 22-25 August 2012.

10 Years after the foundation of the Network, the G-I-N 2012 conference is a special occasion to reflect lessons learned and to discuss future visions for international collaboration. Guideline developers around the world discuss the opportunities to share evidence globally and the necessity to respect local differences influencing the decision making process at the level of formulating recommendations and policy decisions.

Consequently, the specific theme for this year’s conference is 'Global Evidence – International Diversity'. In this context, strategies and successful examples of international collaboration are addressed, ensuring that the diversity of the international audience is represented across sessions. Major topics are latest developments in defining standards of quality of guidelines, in the methodology of creating the evidence basis for guidelines, in patient involvement in guideline development and in implementation and knowledge management. We are delighted to present an inspiring programme with excellent speakers.

The 2012 G-I-N Conference Proceedings contain 320 abstracts from more than 40 countries to be presented at the G-I-N 2012 conference. These include abstracts for plenary sessions, workshops, panel sessions, short oral presentations, posters, all provided by an international panel of invited speakers and abstract submitters. Please note that the presentation format suggested by abstract submitters might have been modified to fit the final programme. Here the abstracts are presented in the format in which they were submitted.

In an extra section, the abstracts of the German language satellite symposium to be held on 22nd August 2012 are provided.

Enjoy reading the 2012 G-I-N Conference Proceedings, visit the conference website, use this occasion to develop and strengthen collaborations with people from a wide range of countries and organisations and join us in Berlin!

Philip van der Wees G-I-N Chair Co-Chair of G-I-N 2012	Günter Ollenschläger Head, ÄZQ Co-Chair of G-I-N 2012	Ina Kopp Head, AWMF-IMWi Chair of the Scientific Committee

Scientific Program

• Plenary Sessions
  • Plenary 1: 10 years of G-I-N: Lessons learned and future vision
  • Plenary 2: One guideline methodology for all?
  • Plenary 3: Do guidelines make a difference?
  • Plenary 4: Patient involvement in guideline development
  • Plenary 5: Knowledge Translation 2020
• Panel Sessions and Workshops
  • Panel Sessions
  • Interactive Workshops
• Oral Presentations
  • Managing Guideline Programmes
  • Updating Guidelines I
  • Implementation: barriers and facilitators
  • Performance Measures I
  • Guideline development: synthesizing evidence and risk of bias
  • Guideline development: new approaches to special challenges
  • Implementation: Interventions
  • Collaboration and diversity I
  • Implementation: Concepts and frameworks
  • Guideline development: methodology I
  • Patient involvement
  • Quality of guidelines: a matter of methodology and content
  • Guideline development: methodology II
  • Tackling Diagnostic Test Questions
  • Knowledge Translation: Practitioner-oriented interventions
  • Collaboration and diversity II
  • Knowledge Translation: Patient-oriented interventions
  • Updating Guidelines II
  • Guideline Adaptation: opportunities and limits
  • Performance Measures II
• Poster Sessions
  • Evidence generation and synthesis
  • Guideline development
  • Stakeholders and dissemination
  • Guideline implementation
• German Language Satellite Symposium
  • Deutschsprachiges Satellitensymposium: Leitlinien und Qualitätsförderung