Member States have given their support to the establishment of a list designating antimicrobials to be reserved exclusively for treating certain infections in people. This means that these antimicrobials cannot be used in animals under any circumstances. The sale of veterinary medicinal products containing these antimicrobials will be prohibited. Through...
The HAPPY PATIENT project was presented in the 22nd Nordic Conference of General Practice which took place in Stavanger, Norway, from the 21 to 23 of June 2022. The HAPPY PATIENT symposium was in the biggest room of the congress venue (Mastrafjorden A) and during the one an a half...
On May 30 and 31, an international meeting was held at the Panum Tower in Copenhagen of the HAPPY PATIENT project of the European Union, which fights against the arbitrary prescription of antibiotics in the 5 countries where it is most prevalent. HAPPY PATIENT (The Health Alliance for Prudent Prescription...
On 30-31 May an international conference was held in the Panum Tower of Copenhagen on the subject based on the EU project HAPPY PATIENT. Among others, Danish researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen have been participating. Resistance to antibiotics is a growing problem with...
HAPPY PATIENT targets both patients, primary health care professionals (general practitioners, nurses, dentists and pharmacists), health care professionals working at OOH services, and nursing homes. We will invite the scientific committees and the relevant societies for all the professionals involved (family doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, OOH services, and nursing homes),...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) causes harm in the short and long term, to the person suffering from the resistant infection and to the community in which he or she lives, even to the entire planet. They impose costs on patients with susceptible infections, on those who may need antibiotics as prophylaxis,...
The University of Southern Denmark was established in 1998 through a merger involving Odense University, the Southern Denmark School of Business and Engineering and South Jutland University Centre. The aim of the University of Southern Denmark is to offer as many young people as possible a research-based degree at the highest...
BMC Medicine is one of the most prestigious publications in the field of medical research, and particularly within the field of Primary Care. BMC Medicine has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. In 1999 BMC made high...
The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is ever-growing and resolving it is high on the agenda of many international organizations, including the European Commission. They have adopted an action plan against AMR of which the main goals are to make the EU a best practice region and to boost research,...
The Department of PharmacoTherapy -Epidemiology and Economics of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) is responsible for WP6 which is leading the Audit cycles in community pharmacies and adapting the APO Templates to pharmacies in the Target Countries. The members who are participating in the HAPPY PATIENT project come from very different...
