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‘Improving Patient Safety in Europe (IPSE)’ is a project funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection (DG SANCO) via its Call for Proposals 2004. The project will run until the middle of 2008.

Considerable efforts have been made to date in harmonising data on nosocomial infections and antibiotic resistance in Europe. As a result, large variability in preventive practices and outcomes across countries is evident. Based on this experience, IPSE aims at resolving these persisting differences through the following approaches:

Providing health services with timely information, evidence-based guidelines and educational tools to manage effectively the risk of nosocomial infection and antibiotic resistance.

Strengthening the status of professionals involved in infection control activities.

Fostering the control of the emergence and spread of multiple resistant organisms in the infection control unit through an integrated surveillance programme.

Monitoring the level of achievement of the nosocomial infection and antibiotic resistance control programmes.

To achieve these aims, an extended partnership has been created, including EU, WHO, ESCMID, some major public health institutes and EU-supported networks. The project will also address challenges facing the EU, such as the creation of the ECDC, development and production of health indicators and concerns regarding patient mobility and quality/safety of healthcare.

IPSE Applications

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The IPSE Symposium

Lyon, 23rd May, 2008

Presentations

	Latest Newsletter
	IPSE Annual Report 2006
	CARE-ICU (WP5) manuals U sers & N ational Admin
	HELICS SSI Statistical Report Surgical Site Infection 2004

Supported by the European Union Directorate General SANCO Grant Agreement 2004216.

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Last update : 30 mai 2008.