With funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and in partnership with the Guidelines International Network, the Guideline Implementability Research and Application Network (GIRAnet) promotes collaboration among guideline developers, implementers and researchers interested in implementability (http://www.g-i-n.net/activities/implementation/giranet). In plain language this means including information in or with guidelines that helps users to implement them. They are particularly interested in guideline implementability tools (GItools) that help users plan for, implement and evaluate use of guideline recommendations. GIRAnet identified, described and assembled exemplar guideline implementability tools (GItools) in a prototype GItool Directory which is publicly available and can be searched or browsed (http://giranet.org).
