EUNID - European Network of Infectious Diseases physicians

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Action Enhancing the capability of responding rapidly and in a co-ordinated fashion to health threats Area of activity Health threats, health security, and health preparedness (2003 Work Plan section 2.3.3.7.): developing a network of isolation facilities in Europe for patients with highly infectious diseases and health professionals with expertise in the management of these facilities and infections. Summary This project aims to create a multidisciplinary, sustainable and effective network of isolation facilities, physicians and other health professionals with expertise in the management of these facilities and infections, (European Network of Infectious Diseases physicians - EUNID) with representation of all Member States and applicant countries which have, or are planning, highly secure isolation facilities. The network will: develop an effective and accessible network website; share and document good practices ( through real and virtual meetings, by development of consensus guidelines, and by fostering linkages with other organisations, NGOs, or networks with convergent interests by co-representation); develop training (by development of an agreed core curriculum), and promote exchange of knowledge and information on the management of isolation facilities and highly infectious diseases, by defining isolation facilities by level of security, defining criteria for ‘highly infectious' diseases, and by developing accessible, complete and accurate inventories of the isolation facilities in Europe and of the health professionals with expertise in the management of these facilities and of highly infectious diseases. More info...
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Leader organisation INMI (Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive), IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome Via Portuense 292 I-00149 Rome ITALY Tel: 0039.06.551.701 Fax: 0039.06.559.4224 web site: http://www.inmi.it	Contact Person Dr Giuseppe IPPOLITO Tel: +39.06.551.70976 Fax: +39.06.558.2825 E-mail: ippolito@inmi.it Web: www.inmi.it
Associated beneficiaries • University Medical Center, Division of Acute Medicine & Infectious Diseases, established in Utrecht (THE NETHERLANDS) • Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, established in Paris (FRANCE) • Royal Free Hospital, Infection and Immunity Service established in London (UNITED KINGDOM) • Erythros Stavros-Red Cross Hospital, established in Athens (GREECE) • Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Dept of Infectious Diseases, established in Solna (SWEDEN) • Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, established in Hus (FINLAND) • University Hospital Gent, Dept Internal Medicine, Division Infectious Diseases, established in Gent (BELGIUM) • Otto Wagner Spital, Interne Abteilung, established in Wien (AUSTRIA) • Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Med. Klinik III / Infektiologie established in Frankfurt (GERMANY) • Epidemiklinikk en Rigshospitalet, established in Copenhagen (DENMARK) • University College Dublin, Department of Medical Microbiology, established in Dublin (IRELAND) • National Service of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, established in Luxembourg (LUXEMBOURG) • Hospital Clinic Universitat de Barcelona, Unitat de Suport I Prevenció, established in Barcelona (SPAIN) • Hospital de Egas Moniz, Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Service, established in Lisboa (PORTUGAL) • Lääne-Tallinna Keskhaigla, established in Tallinn (ESTONIA)
Starting date and duration of project - 15/06/2004 - 36 months	Total cost 1.111.308,00 € Subsidy from the Commission 622.332,00 €
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1. The development of an accessible and effective part- public part- private web site; 2. The development and maintenance of complete, accurate and accessible inventories of highly secure isolation facilities & other isolation facilities in Europe, and of health professionals with expertise in the management of highly infectious diseases; accessible from network website; 3. The development of consensus-based guidelines on the management of specific highly infectious diseases, and on the conduct of medical procedures or techniques used in their treatment; disseminated by publication on network website, by presentation at national and international scientific meetings, and by publication in peer reviewed journals as appropriate; 4. Development of an agreed core curriculum for health professionals who specialise in the management of highly infectious diseases; disseminated through the network website and through relevant national/ international professional organisations; 5. Preparation of a report on a study of the feasibility of developing additional international outbreak response resources within Europe; dissemination through network website, by direct feedback to the Commission and relevant national authorities, and by publication in peer reviewed scientific journals if appropriate. Reports: Final report(6/15/2004 to 6/14/2007)(130 KB) Annex 1: Report of the first annual meeting, Rome, 27-28 May 2005 Annex 2: Report of the second annual meeting, London, 7-8 April 2006 Annex 3: Agenda of the Workshop: Critical aspects of Highly Infectious Diseases, Rome, 22-23 May, 2007 Annex 4: Report of the third annual meeting, Rome, 24 May 2007 Annex 5: Highly Infectious Diseases and Isolation Room Capabilities in European Countries Annex 6: List of Experts Annex 7: What Personal Protective Equipment for Highly Infectious Diseases in Highly Isolation Units - The European perspective Annex 8: Clinical Management of Highly Infectious Diseases: a EUNID consensus guideline Annex 9: Specifications for a High-Level Isolation Unit for hazardous infectious diseases in Europe: report and commentary on a consensus view of European experts participating in the EUNID project Annex 10: A curriculum for training healthcare workers in the management of highly infectious diseases Annex 11: Suggested prototype EUNID course schedule for the management of patients with highly infectious diseases (HID) Annex 12: Course for the management of patients with highly infectious diseases: content of knowledge and skills modules
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Statement of project aim(s) and objectives Attention has recently been focussed on threats to health security, particularly those due to emerging and re-emerging infections or deliberate release of biological agents. Considerable work has been done to improve surveillance (European Influenza Surveillance Scheme - EISS; European Union Public Health Information Network, EUPHIN), laboratory diagnosis (European Network for Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases - ENIVD), and outbreak detection and investigation tigating outbreaks of infection (SARS, through Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network – GOARN; Early Warning and Response System - EWRS), and health threat ‘preparedness' plans have been developed at local, national, and European level. Aim of the project is to build a pan-European network (the European Network for Infectious Diseases physicians, EUNID), dedicated to improving coordination, communication, and resource sharing between isolation facilities in Europe and the health professionals who work in them. Objectives are to: • create a multidisciplinary network of isolation facilities, physicians, and other professionals with expertise in the management of isolation and highly infectious diseases; • document best practice, develop modular course, and promote exchange of knowledge and information on the management of isolation facilities and highly infectious diseases, by including expertise in engineering, occupational health, microbiology, hospital management, communication, surveillance, transport, education, and nursing; • develop complete, and accessible inventories of the isolation units and other isolation facilities in Europe, and the health professionals who work in them; • develop guidelines for the clinical investigation and management of patients with highly infectious diseases and for personnel requirements of isolation facilities; • create a part-public part-private network website accessible to health professionals and to general; • collaborate effectively with organisations/networks with convergent interests (NGOs, e.g. Medicine Sans Frontières - MSF; GOARN, WHO; IRIDE; ENIVD).
Methods The network already includes partners within all 15 Member States and one applicant country, including all countries which currently have high security isolation facilities. All are committed to the development of the network as a functional entity; their participation is supported by the relevant national authorities. The work of the network, development of the network website, and the organisation of the Steering Committee will be coordinated by a team based in Rome. Network priorities and output will be agreed by the Steering Committee (all participants and co-opted technical experts), which will meet for the first time within three months of the start of the project. Existing data and information will be collated, exchanged, and discussed. The coordination team will then develop definitions, guidelines, inventories, training modules as scheduled, which be reviewed by participants with relevant organisations at local or national level , refined, and subsequently, once agreed, made available through the network website or otherwise disseminated.