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External Resources for Identifying Potential Collaborators

 

Identify collaborators by guideline:

  1. Search GIN international guideline library and registry of guidelines in development (Free for members)
    https://g-i-n.net/international-guidelines-library
    Note: refer to willingness to collaborate
  2. Conduct environmental or jurisdictional scans to identify guidelines in topic area(s) relevant to the scope and focus of the guideline, from other regions
  3. PREPARE Practice guideline REgistration for transPAREncy or the International Practice Guideline Register Platform (IPGRP) program. Link: http://www.guidelines-registry.org/ (Free)

Identify collaborators by literature review and published literature:

  1. Search PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews
    https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/
    Note: Other registries that support the registration of scoping reviews
    Pieper, D., Rombey, T. Where to prospectively register a systematic review. Syst Rev 11, 8 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01877-1
  2. Conduct literature reviews or scoping reviews to identify authors publishing research in topic area(s) relevant to the scope and focus of the guideline

Identify collaborators through professional organizations, societies, and stakeholder groups:

  1. Conduct Environmental scans to identify:
    1. professional organizations, societies, and stakeholder groups in topic area(s) relevant to the scope and focus of the guideline
    2. conferences in topic area(s) relevant to the scope and focus of the guideline

Identify collaborators by national socioeconomic standing:

  1. United Nations Human Development Index Annual human development report https://hdr.undp.org/
    Human Development Index https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI
    Human Development Insights (based on UN Human Development Index) https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
  2. International Monetary Fund (IMF) Committees
    https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/A-Guide-to-Committees-Groups-and-Clubs
  3. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) intergovernmental organisation
    List of OECD Member countries
    https://www.oecd.org/about/document/ratification-oecd-convention.htm
  4. United Nations Economic Commission of Europe (UNECE)
    Country Ranking Data Portal
    https://w3.unece.org/PXWeb/en/RankingDomains

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