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Reuter K, Haupt C, Molto A, Cope A, van Vollenhoven RF, Elewaut D, Lories R, McInnes IB. Levelling the playing field of RMD research across Europe to address patients' needs: the emerging EULAR Research Centre. RMD Open 2022; 8:rmdopen-2022-002456. [PMID: 35714997 PMCID: PMC9207999 DOI: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
Abstract
Herein, we describe the Research Centre launched by the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) in 2020. The Centre aims to facilitate collaborative research on rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) across Europe. RMDs disable millions of people in Europe and worldwide. Despite progress with improved therapeutics and strategic interventions in several RMDs, there are no cures, and their collective impact remains substantial. Access to RMD-related care, policies prioritizing RMDs, and related research, education, training, and funding differ significantly across European countries. Building a new equipoise in opportunity and capacity across Europe will facilitate optimal understanding of those different factors that influence the epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes in RMDs. The EULAR Research Centre aims to address the significant barriers to accelerating RMD research across Europe. It provides an RMD research roadmap of unmet needs, expert services, infrastructures, networks, research resources, training, education, and mentoring. It will place RMD research in the ideal position to benefit from forthcoming remarkable advances in digital, biological, and social science anticipated in the coming decades.
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- Katja Reuter
- European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA
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- European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Rheumatology, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris, France.,INSERM U-1153, Center for Research in Epidémiology and StatisticS (CRESS), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center ARC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.,VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Division of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Department of Development and Regeneration, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Centre, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Centre, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Glasgow, UK
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Current status and future perspectives of collaboration in surgical research: A scoping review of the evidence. Surgery 2021; 170:748-755. [PMID: 34112518 DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2021.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Surgery is rapidly changing in terms of techniques, education, and methods of conducting research. To keep up with this pace, surgeons have recently focused on collaborative research projects. The aim of this review was to investigate practices for collaborations in surgical research. METHODS A scoping review was conducted according to the guidelines proposed by Peters et al. Publications on patterns of collaboration in surgical research between January 2000 and December 2020, irrespective of the study design or language of publication, which were indexed in PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar, were included. A research librarian assisted in choosing the search terms and conducting the search. The very broad nature of the subject necessitated a pragmatic search strategy, with primary focus on reviews about collaboration. A new form of crowd science was used that explored collaborations using social media and online shared documents. RESULTS The search identified 38 studies that covered different aspects of collaboration in surgical research. Global, specialist, trainee-/student-led, and patient-led collaboratives are growing in number and size. Implementation of information technologies in surgical collaboration is still limited. The review identified attempts to include researchers from low- and middle-income countries in these collaborations, but these were at the early stages. CONCLUSION There are many patterns of collaboration in surgical research. Involvement of low- and middle-income countries will lead to capacity building in these countries, fast recruitment for surgical trials, and more generalizability of trial results. Due to the complex nature of surgical research, implementation of information technologies might improve the quality of research.
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Boda-Heggemann J, Hofheinz R, Gkika E, Brunner T, Krug D. Beyond the scalpel - mortality after liver surgery in patients with liver metastases - time to rethink the indications. Br J Surg 2019; 107:149. [PMID: 31869462 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Comment to Filman et al., Mortality after liver surgery in Germany. Br J Surg, 2019.
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- J Boda-Heggemann
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Tagestherapiezentrum, Interdisziplinäres Tumorzentrum, University Medical Center Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg in Breisgau, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department for Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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Krug D, Hofheinz R, Gkika E, Brunner T, Boda-Heggemann J. [Unexpectedly high mortality after surgical liver interventions in Germany]. Strahlenther Onkol 2019; 196:98-100. [PMID: 31732781 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-019-01547-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- David Krug
- Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus L, 24105, Kiel, Deutschland.
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- Tagestherapiezentrum, Interdisziplinäres Tumorzentrum, Universitätsmedizin Mannheim, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Strahlenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie, Universitätsmedizin Mannheim, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Deutschland
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