In Europe, nearly 35,000 people die each year due to antimicrobial resistance, mainly caused by inappropriate antibiotic use, as reflected in data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. This is a global public health problem, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has already identified as one of...
The HAPPY PATIENT team is joining World Antibiotic Awareness Week. Specifically, Maarten Lambert and Katja Taxis have been invited to an event organized by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). This Monday, Lambert was one of five panelists presenting some results of the HAPPY PATIENT project in a webinar with around...
• One of the research lines of the HAPPY PATIENT European project is to develop a strategy to improve communication between professionals and patients. • As the celebration of the European Day for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics approaches on November 18, it is worth remembering that the adequacy of...
The first session of the HAPPY PATIENT Communication skills: Training the trainers for the countries taking part in the project took place yesterday, 13 September afternoon. The topic addressed was the need to integrate communication skills into clinical practice and, more specifically, when deciding on the prescription of antibiotics. Nieves Barragán and Lucía Arias, as members of the Spanish Society of Family and...
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...
