About Us
Partnerships
The Canadian Respiratory Guidelines Committee (CRGC) of the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) adheres to a strict partnering policy in order to prevent conflicts of interest at any level in the production, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of Canadian clinical practice guidelines and tools. The CRGC maintains two types of partnerships: funding partners and methodology partners.
Funding Partners
The CRGC has implemented a diverse funding portfolio in order to balance competing interests and administers these funds through strict "arms length" procedures. As a result, the CRGC receives funding from both government and industry.
Government
The CRGC applies for the federal government grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to fund meetings and workshops. In addition, applications are submitted to CIHR Knowledge Translation (KT) & Commercialization and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) for synthesis and operating grants.
Industry
The CRGC receives industry funding in the form of unrestricted educational grants. According to the CRGC arms length funding process, industry funding is allocated to the CTS as an organization, not to individual committees or individuals. Industry funding is 'pooled' in order to ensure integrity of the process.
Each disease-specific evidence review panel participates in the planning process and submits all anticipated resource requirements to the CRGC in advance. Each of the panel members must declare his/her conflicts of interest and outline all industry funding received. The CRGC determines resource allocation priorities and directs resources accordingly.
The CRGC would like to the thank the following industry funding partners.
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Methodology Partners (Guideline Development)
The CRGC works with methodology experts to ensure the guidelines produced and updated by the CRGC are evidence-based and meet the highest standard of quality.
Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC)
The Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) promotes better health for the people of Ontario by encouraging physicians and other practitioners to use evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and clinical practices based on best available evidence.
www.gacguidelines.ca
Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.
www.cochrane.org
Memberships
The CRGC fosters and maintains memberships with provincial, national, and international organizations with similar missions and mandates.
Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)
G-I-N seeks to improve the quality of health care by promoting systematic development of clinical practice guidelines and their application into practice, through supporting international collaboration. The CRGC is a member of G-I-N.
www.g-i-n.net