The ADAPTE collaboration has achieved its goal of developing the ADAPTE framework, manual and tools.

The ADAPTE collaboration and the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) have agreed that the dissemination and further work on adaptation methodology will be undertaken under the G-I-N banner (http://www.g-i-n.net). 

The ADAPTE collaboration is pursuing the initial evaluation of ADAPTE that is still ongoing.

Any inquiry regarding the ADAPTE evaluation study should be sent to contact@adapte.org.

Any inquiry regarding the use of ADAPTE should be sent to http://www.g-i-n.net/contact-us. 

You may download the last version of the ADAPTE toolkit on http://g-i-n.net/document-store/adapte-resource-toolkit-guideline-adaptation-version-2.

There are mainly layout differences between versions 1 and 2. However, version 2 is within the same framework as version 1 and the tools are unchanged.

The evaluation study of the ADAPTE framework and its tools was launched in June, 2007.
The inclusion of new participants was officially closed on 1st September, 2009. Nevertheless, it is still possible to subscribe as a new user and fill in the questionnaires.

Now, the ADAPTE Manual and the ADAPTE Toolkit may be downloaded without any registration (click on "read more" at the bottom of this page, and then on "pdf download")

We sincerely thank all those who have taken part to the study and we encourage those who did not fully complete the study to fill in the remaining questionnaires, using their login (email address) and password (if lost, click on "password reminder"). If you have any question about this, please, send an email to contact@adapte.org.

NB: Disclaimer:

Care has been taken in the preparation of the information contained in the ADAPTE documents. Nonetheless, any person seeking to apply or consult the ADAPTE Collaboration resource toolkit is expected to use independent judgment in their own context. The ADAPTE Collaboration makes no representation or warranties of any kind whatsoever regarding the content or use or application of the ADAPTE process and disclaims any responsibility for the application or use of the manual or resource toolkit in any way.

The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) Conference 2010, will be held August 25-28, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Register online now. The G-I-N Conference 2010 will bring together various professionals involved in evidence synthesis, guideline development, implementation, quality improvement, and health policy to integrate knowledge and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes. For further information and details, please visit the G-I-N Conference 2010 Web site.

Main theme of this G-I-N Network meeting will be "Implementation in practice".

The meeting will be held in Helsinki and focus on the following potential topics:

• Guidelines in clinical practice - care pathways, house rules, who cares?
• Does Information-Communication Technology help or hinder in implementation - decision aids in practice
• Guidelines and organisation of care – what role do the guidelines play?

A five-track programme (cancer and prevention control, tobacco control, knowledge transfer, supportive care and capacity building) offers opportunities for exchange of knowledge and ideas and in-depth learning on all aspects of the global fight against cancer. Building on the success of the World Conference for Cancer Organizations in Dublin in 2004 and the World Cancer Congress in Washington, DC, in 2006, the 2008 Geneva Congress will focus on global, regional and national activities in cancer prevention and control, making it a uniquely comprehensive and relevant event for the cancer control community throughout the world.

ADAPTE will be presented and hold a session at the UICC conference.

The International Conference on Systems Science in Health Care was born in 1976 and since then, every four years, it has become a great opportunity to help specialists meet and discuss on an important and actual topic for an efficient management of health care systems. After, Paris, Montréal, Munich, Lyon, Prague, Barcelona, Budapest and Geneva, the conference will be held once more and twenty years later in Lyon , listed World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The theme of the 9th conference is: “New Information Technologies and Governance of Health Care Systems”.

The ADAPTE collaboration, partner of the Guideline-International Network (G-I-N), will held a workshop at the 5th International G-I-N Conference 2008 from October 1-3, 2008 in Helsinki .

The ADAPTE workshop, entitled "Guideline adaptation: a methodology to enhance efficiency in guideline development and improve utilization",  will take place on Friday 3rd October from 10:45 to 12:30 pm (Session 4). 

This workshop will present the ADAPTE process and first evaluation results, and discuss experiences of individuals and organisations with using the ADAPTE process in various settings.

The Conference -held in Eilat, Israel- is under the auspices of the EAPC, co-sponsored by NHPCO and endorsed by IAHPC.

"At this Conference, we propose to build a bridge across cultures, to find a common language for both learning and teaching, and to overcome the boundaries between professional disciplines, patients, and families in the ongoing quest to alleviate suffering and grief. We will try to show that suffering is an unequivocal situation with the same characteristics in all cultures, languages, and creeds, indifferent to social standing, age and gender, and that we all need expert professional care to palliate and alleviate pain at all times, especially when curative medicine is no longer effective."

Conference website: www.entersymposium.com/ofakim-pallcare2008