Special meeting

BIRO Academy Residential Meeting Year 3

Brussels, 26th-27th August 2011

THEME 1. 1st EUBIROD Diabetes Report


  • Scope and Purpose Massimo Massi Benedetti, U. Perugia, Italy

SESSION 1 – METHODS AND STUDY POPULATION (Chair: M.Massi Benedetti)

  • Design and Statistical Analysis Fabrizio Carinci, U.Perugia, Italy
  • General Population (Age, Gender, Type and Duration of Diabetes), Zeljko Metelko, U.Zagreb, Croatia
  • Distribution of Risk factors for Diabetic Complications (Weight, BMI, Smoking Status, Cholesterol, Creatinine, HbA1c), Michael Jecht, Havelhoe Hospital, Germany

SESSION 2 – QUALITY OF CARE (Chair: S.Skeie)

  • Processes (Tests done for Foot and eye examination, Blood Pressure, Lipids, Microalbumin, HbA1c), Joseph Azzopardi, U.Malta, Malta
  • Treatment/Management (Antihypertensive, Lipid Lowering, ASA, Glucose Lowering, Self monitoring, Visit frequency), Fred Storms, The Netherlands
  • Process quality I (% with at least one measure of HbA1c, microalbuminuria, eye and feet examination, smoking status, creatinine), Tamara Poljičanin, U.Zagreb, Croatia
  • Process quality II (Oral therapy, % treated with insulin, insulin+OAD, insulin pump, antihypertensive, lipid lowering, ASA, self monitoring of blood glucose), Caroline de Beaufort, Luxembourg

SESSION 3 – OUTCOMES (Chair: F.Storms)

  • Blood pressure (distribution as a risk factor, % with at least one measure, % with values <140/90), Ulf Lidblad, Salgrehnska Academy, Sweden
  • Intermediate Outcomes (% with HbA1c>7.5, 9.0, BMI>=30, microalbuminuria, smoking, foot ulceration), Massimo Massi Benedetti, U.Perugia, Italy
  • Diabetic Complications (Retinopathy, ESRF, Foot Ulcer, Amputation, Stroke, AMI, Hypertension), Svein Skeje, NOKLUS, Norway
  • Terminal Outcomes (Dyalisis, ESRD, Mortality)Simion Pruna, Telemedica Consulting, Romania
  • Pediatric IndicatorsPrzemka Jarosz-Chobot, U.Silesia, Poland

THEME 2. Dissemination


SESSION 1 – PAPERS (Chair: J.Azzopardi)

  • Paper Submission: Privacy Impact Assessment, Concetta Tania Di Iorio, Serectrix, Italy
  • Paper Submission: Development and use of the BIRO System in EUBIROD, F.Carinci, U.Perugia, Italy
  • EUBIROD Diabetes Report and other Clinical Papers, Zeljko Metelko, U.Zagreb, Croatia
  • Dissemination Plan, Massimo Massi Benedetti, U.Perugia, Italy
  • Pediatric Indicators, Przemka Jarosz-Chobot, U.Silesia, Poland

THEME 3. - Final Deliverables


SESSION 1 – TOOLS (Chair: S.Cunningham)

  • The integrated BIRO System, Fabrizio Carinci, U.Perugia, Italy
  • Meta-Registry of Diabetes Sources, Massimo Brillante, U.Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • User registration and Communication Software, Peter Beck, Joanneum Research, Austria
  • E-learning Platform, M.Brillante, U.Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

SESSION 2 – EVALUATION (Chair: M.Jecht)

  • Evaluation of EUBIROD, Fred Storms, The Netherlands

THEME 4. - The road ahead


SESSION 1 – PLANNING (Chair: M.Massi Benedetti)

  • 2nd EUBIROD Diabetes Report, F.Carinci, U.Perugia, Italy