Midterm Review Meeting Helsinki

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Midterm Review MeetingHelsinki
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Overall Objective

• Research Infrastructure
• The establishment of a synergistic European
  network
• that bundles and coordinates existing
  competence in
• clinically oriented research on Parkinsons
  disease.
• Network management (WP 1) committees
• voting rules
• publication policy

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Who are we?

• Neurologists with long-term
• experience and expertise in
• movement disorders and
• clinical research from 11
• European countries and
• an IT- partner

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EuroPa Work Packages Overview
x involved partner, xx responsible partner,
(xx) in collaboration responsible
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What are we aiming for?

• Recruitment of clinically well described
  patients
• - unified clinical documentation
• - minimal data set (WP 3) - registry
• Web-data entry system (WP 2)
• - including data management
• Main achievement will be a central patient
  registry
• Advantage for EuroPa in planning and conducting
• multinational, multicentre clinical trials
  (WP 4)

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What are we aiming for?

• Spread of Good Clinical Practice (WP 4)
• Accelerate the standardization of diagnostic
  and therapeutic
• strategies
• EuroPa is qualified to conduct
• - epidemiological studies (WP 4)
• - socio-economical studies (WP 5)
• with impact on patients, the health care system
  and the society
• To raise funds for sustainability (WP 6)
• Long term goal clinical research organisation
  for
• European multicentre clinical trials

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EuroPa Timetable
ReferenceEuroPa - Technical
Annex Pages 13-14 EuroPa - Proposal Part
BPages 18-20
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Where are we now?

• More than half of the project funding period is
  over
• We have proceeded within schedule
• Important milestones have been reached in time
• Participants increasingly identify themselves
  with EuroPa
• Details of project progress will be presented by
  the work
• package leaders

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Summary

• Main project achievements so far
• Establishment of a functioning management
  structure
• Data protection and ethical approvals in most
  centres
• Patient registry with web-based data capture is
  working on-line
• About 350 patients have been entered
• Concept of EuroPa clinical trial and research
  organisation (CREO) is finalized
• A call for proposals for the first EuroPa study
  has just been sent out to all participants
• Possible organisational forms for EuroPa are
  under evaluation in order to ensure our
  sustainability