Meeting of the Working Group EWAIT at the ESICM 2010 in Barcelona
11.10.2010
14:00-15:30
Congress Center CCIB, BM2
Attendants
Claudia Spies
Willehad Boemke
Antonio Artigas
Mercedes Palomar
Massimo Girardis
Lutz Kaufner
Andreas Rothbart
Sascha Tafelski
claudia.spies@charite.de
willehad.boemke@charite.de
aartigas@tauli.cat
mpalomar@vhebron.net
massimo.girardis@unimore.it
lutz.kaufner@charite.de
andreas.rothbart@charite.de
sascha.tafelski@charite.de
Guests
Marc Henke
Jürgen Bufler
Nathalie Baillon-Plot
Julie Chaudron
Halina Jede
marc.henke@pfizer.com
juergen.bufler@pfizer.com
Nathalie.Baillon-Plot@pfizer.com
Julie.Chaudron@pfizer.com
Halina.Jede@pfizer.com
Welcome (C. Spies)
Update 2010 (A. Rothbart)
Updates in the English version
Abdominal infections:
secondary peritonitis – community and health-careassociated
hepatobiliary infections
Pneumonia:
new guidelines
risk of P. aeruginosa
Fever of unknown origin: risk factors
Diagnostics:
blood cultures
Antiinfectives:
new substances, focus on antifungals
Pathogens:
new pathogens
Tools:
new tools
Italian Version (S. Tafelski):
http://www.ital.dgai-abx.de/
Informatics structure of the web databases. The 2/3 of the translation has been
completed and is transferred to separate database (mySQL/PHP). Missing
parts: static pages, special pages .
Thanks to Laura Zavatti.
Discussion: M. Girardis: problem, in Italy there are no national guidelines, big
regional differences, restrictions due to antibiotic stewardship
programmes. The translation is not enough to implement the
programme. A stand alone or Smartphone based application could be
used easier as there are a lot of computers without internet access.
S. Tafelski: The login-process could be simplified.
C. Spies:
EBM should be represented on the left side of the web
application; national standard should be implemented there if available.
On the right side (Eguard local) local peculiarities can be introduced.
It is a chance to have these national differences on the European level,
to respect the stewardship and implement the different attitudes to
antibiotic prescribing and compare the outcome (need for studies).
It is up to a national institution to integrate the national needs.
Differences are an option to learn why there is national advice differing
from international guidelines.
It is a problem not knowing how much it is used, we have to get more
feedback in order not to do harm by spreading the application.
EWAIT-eguard (L. Kaufner)
Achievements from the start of Eguard (04/2009) till now. The EWAITProject consists of partners in 15 countries. ESICM: joint working group of POIC and
Infection Section. New logo and website (www.eguard-online.eu). Topic submission
FP7 2011 and call modification has been done. Topic submission FP7 2012 has
been done.
The difficulties in applying for a call in the seventh framework programme (FP7) are
explained. After submitting topics through national contact points, a call is opened,
but can be changed several times.
The problem is that the programme is still not a internationally widespread application
and that there are international studies missing.
The aim is to spread the application Eguard, start international and national studies
and investigations.
Afterwards a topic submission should be undertaken in a coordinated way by all
participating countries through their national contact points. Once a call is opened, it
is possible to request a modification if it is not applicable.
This year the problem was that the call was first only for “diagnostics”, after a change
it was written out for small and medium enterprises (SME).
The call 2012 Cooperation Theme 1 Health 1.2. has its focus on technology.
Point 3.1. (3. OPTIMISING DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE TO EUROPEAN
CITIZENS
3.1 Translating the results of clinical research outcome into clinical practice
including better use of medicines, and appropriate use of behavioural and
organisational interventions and new health therapies and technologies )
could be applicable.
Topic submission has been undertaken. Waiting for a call.
Another way to apply for funding could be the DG SANCO (Directorate General for
Health and Consumer Affairs). For which the application must be modified to
“prevention and alert”.
C. Spies:
The national societies must be involved. It might make more sense to
focus the priority on DG SANCO as the FP7 is very dependent on politics and there
are other competitors. There is need for more studies and communication.
Projects
Spanish translation:
Antonio Artigas is interested, he is going to have a
look at the English version first and send us his comments
Contact:
Antonio Artigas and Ricard Ferrer
French translation
Mobile application (Smartphone)
Chat or mailing list for experts (idea)