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

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Published in Qual Saf Health Care on December 01, 2004

Authors

G Ollenschläger1, C Marshall, S Qureshi, K Rosenbrand, J Burgers, M Mäkelä, J Slutsky, Board of Trustees 2002, Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)

Author Affiliations

1: Agency for Quality in Medicine (AQuMed), Cologne, Germany. ollenschlaeger@azq.de

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