Improving the quality of health care: Using international collaboration to inform guideline programmes by founding the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 455-460

  Ollenschlager G ^a,b   Marshall, C ^c   Qureshi, S ^d   Rosenbrand, K ^e   Burgers, J ^e,f   Makela M ^g   Slutsky, J ^h  

^a Agency for Quality in Medicine   (Germany)

^b Agy for Qual in Medicine (AQuMed)   (Germany)

^c New Zealand Guidelines Group   (New Zealand)

^d SIGN   (United Kingdom)

^e Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 10644263619     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2003.009761     Document Type: Review

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