Collaboration

SIGN is actively associated with a number of other organisations on collaborative projects to improve efficiency and reduce duplication in guideline development work. Currently we are working with the following organisations:

Association of Comprehensive Cancer Centres (Netherlands) www.ikcnet.nl/page.php?id=97

Belgian Health Care knowledge Centre https://kce.fgov.be/en

British Thoracic Society https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/quality-improvement/guidelines/ 

Cochrane Collaboration www.cochrane.org/

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx

German Guideline Program in Oncology www.leitlinienprogramm-onkologie.de

Guidelines International Network (GIN) www.g-i-n.net/

GIN Public www.g-i-n.net/activities/gin-public

The GRADE Working Group https://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence www.nice.org.uk/

Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health (PRECEPT) www.rki.de/precept

Current research projects

Developing and Evaluating Communication Strategies to Support Informed Decisions and Practice Based on Evidence (DECIDE)

Partners: University of Dundee, Finnish Medical Society (Duodecim), National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and 7 other European organisations

Project dates: 2011- 2015

Funded by the European Commission

Contact: sign@sign.ac.uk