General Practice Guidelines
NSRF Project"Guidelines for management of the most common diseases and conditions in primary health care”
Project’s full title: "Development of 13 General Practice Guidelines for the management of the most common diseases and conditions in primary health care”
Funding agency: National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013
Project number: 365463
Project duration: 10 May 2012 – 31 December 2013
Project carrier: Clinic of Social and Family medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
Principal Investigator (P.I.): Christos Lionis, Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care
Co-PIs: Tzanakis Nikolaos, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Frangiadakis Yiannis, Information Technology Director
Project Manager: Vasilaki Irene
Reseach Team: (in alphabetical order)
Anastasiou Fotini, Antonopoulou Maria, Argyriadou Stella, Batikas Antonis, Chatzea Vassiliki-Irene, Chranioti Ioanna, Dislian Valentina, Georgopoulou Anthie, Gkionis Ioannis, Igglezakis George, |
Karageorgou Demetra, Karotsis Antonis, Karpathiotaki Thiresia, Koutis Antonis, Koutouxidou Elisavet, Lentzas Ioannis, Lintovoi Eleftheria, Lionakis Stylianos, Mantzouranis George, Mavrogiannaki Marina, |
Michalaki Irene, Moutzouri Meropi, Oikonomidou Irene, Pantelidakis Heracles, Papadaki Maria, Papadaki Marina, Papalexandris Stylianos, Polyzos Nikolaos, Prokopiadou Demetra, Tatsi Chrisanthi, |
Thireos Eleftherios, Tsakountakis Nikolaos, Tsiligianni Ioanna, Symenonidis Athanasios, Vasilaki Irene, Vasilopoulous Theodoros, Volikou Antigoni. |
Overall aim: to develop 13 guidelines in General Practice and Nursing regarding management of the most common chronic diseases through the application of a specific methodology, tested and developed by the Department of Social and Family Medicine, University of Crete in a previous INTERREG project. This includes identification of evidence-based guidelines, published by several organizations and disseminated worldwide, including the websites of the European College for General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM).
Goal: to issue, for the first time in Greece, national clinical guidelines and recommendations for best practice, with the approval of WONCA Europe Groups, such as the following:
- ESPCG (European Society Primary Care Gastroenterology)
- IPCRG (International Primary Care Respiratory Group)
- EPCCS (European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society)
- WONCA Working Party on Mental Health and
- EUROPREV (European Network for Prevention and Health Promotion in Family Medicine and General Practice).