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Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, leading to great personal suffering to victim and relatives, as well as huge direct and indirect costs to society. Strong ethical, medical, social and health economic reasons therefore exist for improving treatment. The CENTER-TBI project will collect a prospective, contemporary, highly granular, observational dataset of 5400 p ...
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Targeted Action for Curing Trauma Induced Coagulopathy (TACTIC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

"Trauma remains one of the world’s biggest contributors to the global burden of disease. Predominantly affecting young adults and children, 800,000 European injury related deaths were recorded in 2002. Outcomes for critically injured trauma patients remain poor with severe bleeding, brain injury and tissue damage being associated with high mortality and disability. Nearly half of all trauma fatali ...
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Polypharmacy in chronic diseases: Reduction of Inappropriate Medication and Adverse drug events in elderly populations by electronic Decision Support (PRIMA-EDS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Background: Treatment of chronic diseases in the elderly with polypharmacy poses a threat to patient outcome and involves extensive costs. Little evidence exists regarding the benefits of polypharmacy, but rising evidence shows its harmful effects. Several approaches to reduce polypharmacy have been proposed, but none have been evaluated using clinically relevant endpoints.Aims: Based on a systema ...
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Pharmacoepidemiolocal Research on Outcomes of Therapeutics by a European ConsorTium (PROTECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Recent pharmacovigilance (PV) issues have led to questions regarding the ability of the current PV system to meet the global needs. Controversies around the assessment of spontaneous reports and conflicting results from pharmacoepidemiology studies may lead to delay in, or inappropriate, regulatory decisions. The PROTECT consortium, consisting of 20 core partners lead by the European Medicines Age ...
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Improving health services for European citizens with dementia: Development of best practice strategies for the transition from ambulatory to institutional long-term care facilities (RightTimePlaceCare)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Given the increasing number of patients/consumers with dementia, political action is urgently required to prepare the health care services throughout Europe to deliver cost effective high quality long-term care to people concerned. Currently there is a lack of clinical research data of patients/consumers and informal caregivers to develop best practice strategies for long-term care. RightTimePlace ...
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Manufacturing Sand-Limestone Bricks, Recycling Energy and Organics from Sewage Sludge (EcoBrick)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Background House bricks are often burned from natural clay, a process that consumes large quantities of energy and causes environmental pollution, especially in rural areas, where small brick factories use ovens fuelled by cheap coal, wood, etc. Sand-limestone bricks need only 30% of the energy used to make bricks from clay. Sand-limestone bricks are usua ...
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Integrated Wastewater Purification Management (IWPM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

Background Waste water has long been a significant environmental challenge as recognised in EU Directives on Urban Waste Water (91/271/EEC) and on Integrated River Basin Management (2000/60/EC). Whether from industry or households, waste water can contain a number of elements, chemicals or nutrients that are contaminating to the natural environment. Waste ...
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Family Health Nursing in European Communities

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

As part of the HEALTH21 health policy framework, the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe Office introduced the Family Health Nurse (FHN) to support families at times of illness and dealing with chronic conditions. Support would be provided in the family home offering early interventions and treatment options, advice, signposting, public health care and support with social issues (WHO, 2000a). ...
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