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85th EGPRN Meeting, Dublin-Ireland, 19-22 October 2017

Programme

09:00-12:00 EGPRN Study Group: FPDM

Chair: Jean Yves Le Reste
Room: AS 683

09:00-12:00 EGPRN Study Group: HEFESTOS

Chair: Miguel Angel Muñoz Pérez
Room: AS 682

09:30-11:30 Welcome and Coffee for EGPRN Executive Board

EGPRN Executive Board Meeting (only for the Executive Board of EGPRN).​​
Room: AS 681

10:00-12:30 Pre-conference Workshop "How to Plan and Report Research that Editors will want to Publish"

EGPRN Pre-Conference Morning Workshop
Chair: Trish Groves, Deputy editor, The BMJ and Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Open
Room: AS 684

Members: €35
Non-members €65

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12:00-13:30 EGPRN Study Group: ATTENTIVE

Chair: Sven Streit
Room: AS 682

12:30-14:00 EGPRN Collaborative Study "PROCOPD"

Chair: Ana Clavería
Room: AS 684

12:30-13:30 Lunch for participants of pre-conference workshops

Price not included in fee conference workshops.

13:00-16:30 EGPRN Study Group: TATA + WomanPower

Chair: Jean Yves Le Reste
Room: AS 683

14:00-16:45 Council Meeting with the National Representatives (only for EGPRN-Council)

Room: AS 681-682

14:00-16:30 Pre-conference Workshop "Public and patient involvement in primary care research: getting started"

EGPRN Pre-Conference Morning Workshop
Chair: Edel Murphy NUIG
Room: AS 684

Members: €35
Non-members €65

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16:30-18:00 EGPRN Study Group: CoCo

Chair: Birgitta Weltermann
​​​​Room: AS 683

16:45-18:00 Educational Committee Meeting

Room: AS 684

16:45-18:00 PR & Communication Committee Meeting

Room: AS 682

16:45-18:00 Research Strategy Committee Meeting

Room: AS 681

18:30-19:30 Welcome Reception and Opening Cocktail

For all participants of this meeting who are present in Dublin at this time.
Location: GAA Museum, Croke Park.
Opening: Minister Finian McGrath
Other Speakers: Dr Richard Brennan, ICGP President & Professor Gerard Bury, UCD.

Directions to Conference Centre – Croke Park Conference Centre Dublin:

Excellent public transport links for local and national bus and rail services, along with 600 on-site parking spaces ensure there is an option to suit you. Our proximity to the M50 motorway in Dublin, provides access to Ireland’s motorway network – connecting all major urban centres nationwide.

Journey Planner Facility - https://crokepark.ie/getting-here

View our location on Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Croke+Park/

08:00-08:30 Registration

Directions to Conference Centre – Croke Park Conference Centre Dublin:

Excellent public transport links for local and national bus and rail services, along with 600 on-site parking spaces ensure there is an option to suit you. Our proximity to the M50 motorway in Dublin, provides access to Ireland’s motorway network – connecting all major urban centres nationwide.

Journey Planner Facility - https://crokepark.ie/getting-here

View our location on Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Croke+Park/

08:30-08:45 Opening of the Meeting by EGPRN Chairperson by EGPRN Chair Prof. Mehmet Ungan

Speaker: Prof. Mehmet Ungan.
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

08:45-09:30 International Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Amanda Howe, President of Wonca. School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich-United Kingdom.
Theme: “Mental Health in Primary Care”. Subtheme: “Increasing Public and Patient Involvement in Health Research”.
Chair: Mehmet Ungan.
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

09:30-11:00 Plennary session - THEME papers "Mental Health"

Chair: Mehmet Ungan
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room)

Presentations:
  • Clients views on primary health care after detoxification for alcohol use disorders - Lodewijk Pas
  • What factors are associated with anti-depressant and benzodiazepine prescribing to people with type two diabetes mellitus? - Jane O' Doherty
  • Why is the physical health of patients with an enduring mental illness neglected? Comparing Irish GPs' monitoring of physical health parameters among patients with an enduring mental illness and the general population - James Larkin
11:00-11:30 BLUE DOT Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session A - THEME papers "The Mental Health of General Practitioners"

Chair: Lieve Peremans
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

Presentations:
  • Burnout among general practicioners: prevalence and associated factors - Guillaume Picquendar
  • Positive Mental Health in GPs: A Qualitative study - Marylou Murray
  • What can be done to promote resilience in General Practitioners? - Olivia Gonzalez
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session B - FREESTANDING papers "Miscellaneous"

Chair: Hans Thulesius.
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

Presentations:
  • How does the introduction of free GP care for children impact on patients and practices? - A Qualitative Study. - Geoff Mc Combe
  • Patient views on urinary tract infection and outcome measures in studies and guidelines on urinary tract infection - Eva Hummers-Pradier
  • Self-care for common colds among patients with chronic conditions: predictors for higher use of self-care measures (COCO study) - Birgitta Weltermann
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session C - THEME papers "Mental Health"

Chair: Anne Møller
Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • Digital social networks impact mental health - Alberto Parada
  • Relation between antidepressant sales and suicide rate in North and South European countries. - Francisco Reus
13:00-14:00 EGPRN Educational Committee Lunch Workshop "Validity: Reproducibility and efficiency of research instruments"

By: Jean Yves Le Reste.
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session D - THEME papers "Dementia/Cognitive Decline"

Chair: Miquel Muñoz Perez.
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

Presentations:
  • Detection of cognitive decline in General Practitioner (GP) office - Miroslav Hanževački
  • Higher all-cause mortality and accelerated cognitive decline in oldest-old with low blood pressure and antihypertensive treatment – results from a population-based Dutch cohort study - Sven Streit
  • The development and evaluation of www.dementiapathways.ie; an online dementia resource for primary care health professionals - Siobhán Boyle
  • “Working away in that Grey Area…” A Qualitative Exploration of the Challenges General Practitioners Experience when Managing Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - Aisling Jennings
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session E - FREESTANDING papers "Vaccination & Other"

Chair: Esperanza Diaz
Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • Factors influencing the development of primary care data collection projects from Electronic Health Records: a systematic review of the literature - Sidonie Chhor
  • Hepcheck: Homeless, Hep C & Competing Priorities in Dublin - John S Lambert
  • Promoting influenza vaccination in general practice waiting rooms by posters and pamphlets. A registry based cluster randomized controlled trial - Christophe Berkhout
  • What is the health status of Syrian refugees in Ireland? - Bridget Kiely
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session F - FREESTANDING papers "Medication Managment/ Prescribing

Chair: Walter Cullen
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

Presentations:
  • A comparative Randomized Controlled Trial among High-Intensity Lasertherapy (HILT) versus Low Power Lasertherapy (LLLT) associated with Steroid Joint Injections in the treatment of Frozen Shoulder or adhesive capsulitis in Primary Care. - Mihai Iacob
  • Apparent treatment resistant hypertension in general practice: A cross sectional study of prevalence with consideration of morbidity, white coat hypertension, dosing and adherence - Peter Hayes
  • Factors affecting antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in general practice - Raymond O'connor
  • Impact of sharing electronic health records with patients on efficiency, effectiveness and patient experience – protocol for a systematic review - Ana Luisa Neves
  • Influence of patient characteristics on GPs advice on stopping statins in oldest-old: survey study across GPs from 30 countries. - Milly Anna Altena-Van Der Ploeg
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-18:00 EGPRN Study Group: 'Örenäs Study Group - Early Diagnosis of Cancer in Primary Care' (closed meeting).

Chair: Michael Harris
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

16:20-17:50 Parallel Session G -THEME papers "Addiction/Eating Disorders"

Chair: Thomas Frese

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

Presentations:
  • Description of patients suffering from Eating Disorders managed by French GPs - Caroline Huas
  • Methodological Challenges Conducting Trials in Primary Care– Lessons Learned from A Feasibility Study of a Complex Intervention to Enhance Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention - Walter Cullen
16:20-17:50 Parallel Session H - FREESTANDING papers "Health Screening"

Chair: Shlomo Vinker

Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • Discrepancies in prostate-specific antigen-based screening for prostate cancer: a two-year follow-up cohort study of French men over the age of 40 years. - Heloise Schmeltz
  • Effect of physician notification regarding non-adherence to colorectal cancer screening on patient participation in fecal cancer screening: A randomized clinical trial. - Cedric Rat
  • Enhancing GP Screening and Brief Intervention for problem alcohol use: A Scoping Review - Dean K. Wright
17:50-18:00 Summary of the day by Prof. Walter Cullen, UCD.

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

18:00-20:00 Practice Visits to various practices in Dublin
08:30-09:10 National Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Murphy. Clinical Science Institute Galway-Ireland.
Theme: "State of the Art and Development of Family Medicine/Primary Care in Ireland" focussed on “New developments in Ireland with regard to the clinical trial network for primary care”.
Chair: Claire Collins
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

09:10-10:40 Parallel session I - Freestanding Papers - Irish General Practice

Chair: Claire Collins
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

Presentations:
  • Developing accreditation for minor surgery in general practice : the Irish experience - Ailis Ni Riain
  • General Practitioners are not Emigrating to further their Training -Trend analysis of the career intentions of recent graduates of General Practice training in Ireland - Gerard Mansfield
  • Making Every Consultation Count: An evaluation of the PMS systems in the Irish General Practice - Ivana Pericin
09:10-10:40 Parallel session J - Freestanding Papers "Diabetes"

Chair: Michael Harris.
Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • Computerised decision support for poorly-controlled T2DM: A cluster randomised controlled trial in Irish General Practice (DECIDE study protocol) - Mark Murphy
  • General practitioner (GP)-centred care is effective in delaying the development of diabetes-related complications in Germany - Martin Beyer
  • The Daphnee project (Doctor and Advanced Public Health Nurse Experiment Evaluation): focus on the quality of care delivered to diabetic patients. - Julie Gilles De La Londe
09:10-10:40 Parallel session K - EGPRN Special Methodology Session

Chair: Jean Karl Soler
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

Presentations:
  • Ambulatory Blood pressure Monitoring (ABPM) use in the diagnosis of Hypertension. - Padraig Mac Suibhne
  • Multinational collaborative study on how to adapt the FM&GP Training to Exponential Age - Mehmet Ungan
  • Perspectives of primary health care physicians on the approach of sexual identity in consultation - Margarida Guilherme
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Parallel session L - Theme Papers "Mental Health"

Chair: Sven Streit
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

Presentations:
  • Primary Care: Understanding patient's daily life with Parkinson's disease - Sabine Bayen
  • The acceptability and feasibility of placing Sage advocates for vulnerable adults in the General Practice setting. - Leanne Hanrahan
  • Validation of Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) in Lithuanian general practice setting - Aelita Skarbaliene
  • What is the internal validation and dimensionality in the translation of HSCL-25 in French, in the diagnosis of depression in primary care? - Patrice Nabbe
11:00-13:00 Parallel session M - Freestanding Papers "Miscellaneous"

Chair: Esperanza Diaz
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

Presentations:
  • Delphi consensus procedure and nominal group to find the most relevant topics to improve GP workforce for stakeholders. - Bernard Le Floch
  • Enablement by the Primary Care consultation: its explained reasons - Andreia Maria Bandeira
  • Factors associated with attitudes towards professionalism in medical students at Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana, Slovenia - Anja Cerne
  • Search for decompensation risk factors within the EGPRN multimorbidity's definition themes. Cohort pilot study followed up at 15 months in nursing home (NH). - Jean Yves Le Reste
11:00-13:00 Parallel session N - One Slide/Five Minutes Presentations

Chair: Ferdinando Petrazzuoli
Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • A primary care intervention to decrease the caregiver's burden of patients with Alzheimer disease - Clarisse Dibao
  • Depression, anxiety and associated medical conditions in primary care - Sara Fernandes
  • Development of a model to improve counseling for family violence and related mental health problems in Europe - Vanja Lasic
  • Family, pregnancy and childhood factors in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder - Inês Rosendo
  • Intermediate care in caring for dementia: a key informant survey across Europe - Ferdinando Petrazzuoli
  • Nurse monitored prevention process for severe mental illness patients : a way to reduce gap of health care access - Jean-François Besnard
  • Pregnancy, postpartum depression, anxiety and breastfeeding - Liliana Constantino
  • Risk of fall by dementia among older people in Denmark living at home - A population- and register-based case-control study - Jindong Ding Petersen
  • The ABC of family medicine research – a training course for early career doctors - Michael Harris
  • What are the evidences for Healthy diet strategies in CVD prevention: Finding the best evidence with the ADAPTE procedure for the SPICES project (Scaling-up Packages of Interventions for Cardiovascular disease prevention in selected sites in Europe a - Delphine Le Goff
13:00-14:00 Lunchtime workshop: "Mental Health - Theory, Practice or Both, Suicide or Survive"

By: Caroline McGuigan, Suicide or Survive
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

14:00-15:30 Poster Session 1 - Mental Health

Co-ordinator: Tiny van Merode
Chair: Athina Tatsioni
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room)

Presentations:
  • Assessing the prevalence and management or mental health problems and suicidality in general practice - Sinead Murphy
  • Audit of benzodiazepine prescribing in psychiatry outpatient clinics in a socially deprived sector - Colette Flynn
  • Overview of patients suffering from severe mental illness on the place of the general practitioner in their somatic care - Anna Fablet
  • Prevalence of severe mental disorders in diabetic patients in urban areas of Netherlands and Barcelona. - Anna Cartanyà Fernández
  • Symptoms of depression and subsequent mental health care treatment – the impact of socioeconomic position. A six month register based follow-up on a population study. - Aake Packness
  • The Barriers to Cardiovascular health needs identification and management in patients with schizophrenia, on anti-psychotics - Brian King
14:00-15:30 Poster Session 2 - Osteoarthritis & Other

Co-ordinator: Tiny van Merode.
Chair: Jean Yves Le Reste.
Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • #endFGM: Aproach in Primary Care - Carme Saperas Pérez
  • Gout and Parkinson’s Disease in a Mediterranean Urban Population. A case-control study. - Francesc Orfila Pernas
  • Minor Surgery in an Urban Primary Care center - Nuria Barlam Torres
  • The challenge of change and maintain healthy behaviors. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of coaching to empower people with knee osteoarthritis and improve their quality of life. - Anna Berenguera
  • Translation of a therapeutic alliance scale (The WAI SR) into Polish, TATA EGPRN collaborative study - Hans Thulesius
14:00-15:30 Poster Session 3 - COPD & Vaccination

Co-ordinator: Tiny van Merode.
Chair: Ana Claveria.
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

Presentations:
  • Diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in patients with severe mental disorders - María Isabel Fernández San Martín
  • Factors associated with COPD readmission - Michal Shani
  • Influenza Vaccination Uptake in an Irish Obstetric Cohort - Tina Barrett
  • Reasons for patients refusal of immunization in GP practices - Elina Skuja
  • Short time effect of smoking cessation on human metabolism - Inbal A Segev Milber
  • The ABCD assessment tool in COPD patients with GOLD 2017 and GOLD 2016 guidelines - Susana Friande
14:00-15:30 Poster Session 4 - Multimorbidty & Other

Co-ordinator: Tiny van Merode.
Chair: Eva Hummers-Pradier.
Room: Corridor outside Hogan Mezzanine Suite.

Presentations:
  • Consumer satisfaction with a new GP-led Gynaecology Clinic in a maternity hospital - Miriam Daly
  • Is Privacy Paramount? An evaluation of a secure email service (Healthmail) by its users - Claire Collins
  • Pharmacy pattern in a Multimorbidity sample using cluster analysis - Marina Guisado
  • Physical activities regularity associations with clinical and biochemical tests in healthy patients - Ilze Skuja
  • Search for decompensation risk factors within the EGPRN multmorbidity’s definition themes. A cohort pilot study, with a follow up at 15 months in primary care outpatients. - Sophie Lalande
14:00-15:30 Poster Session 5 - Cardiovascular & Other

Co-ordinator: Tiny van Merode.
Chair: Clarissse Dibao.
Room: Corridor outside Davin Suite Green Room

Presentations:
  • An observational study of patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Plovdiv region - Kemal Sadik
  • Efficacy of gabapentin for prevention of postherpetic neuralgia - Joan Llobera Canaves
  • Hepatitis C management among patients receiving opioid substitution treatment in general practice in Ireland - Ross Murtagh
  • Need of elaborate and efficient care: a Croatian study of post-MI patients’ care in family practice - Lucija Murgic
  • Reporting of outcomes in systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials on low back pain interventions in primary health care: is it clinically meaningful? - Despoina Karamitrou
14:00-15:30 Poster Session 6 - Curriculum and Students

Co-ordinator: Tiny van Merode.
Chair: Michael Harris.
Room: Corridor outside Nally Suite Red Room

Presentations:
  • Curricular priorities for dementia education for General Practitioners: A Delphi consensus study - Ruby Ying-Ju Chang
  • Factors that influence medical residents’ attitudes towards people with substance use disorders: A scoping review - Sharneet Sandhu
  • Multinational collaborative study of diversity in General Practice/Family Medicine training across Europe - Radost Assenova
  • Students underestimate GPs’ earnings – Should we talk about money? A report on preliminary results of an ongoing study - Tobias Deutsch
  • The perception of medicalization of the final year students in the Marmara University Health Sciences related schools - Pemra C. Unalan
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Parallel session O - Theme Papers "Sleep disorders/behaviours"

Chair: Davorina Petek
Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

Presentations:
  • The relationship between circadian preferences and happiness in medical school students - Makbule Neslisah Tan
  • Too depressed to sleep: Long-term hypnotic treatment and mental illness. A 10 year retrospective cohort study of 250,000 patients. - Yochai Schonmann
16:00-17:00 Parallel session P - Freestanding papers "Respiratory illnesses"

Chair: Kristin Hendrickx
Room: Nally Suite (Red Room).

Presentations:
  • Gender differences in moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome diagnosis with clinical symptoms or/and nocturnal pulsioximetry in primary care. - Ana Clavería
  • Quit smoking, sleep better. Assessment of change in sleep quality one month after smoking cessation. - Tevfik Tanju Yılmazer
16:00-17:00 Parallel session Q - Workshop

Chair: Athina Tatsioni
Room: Davin Suite (Green Room).

Presentations:
  • A personal journey into the process of diagnosis in family medicine – sharing experiences and exploring the future - Jean Karl Soler
17:00-17:10 Summary of the day by Dr. Claire Collins, ICGP.

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

17:10-17:30 Chairperson’s Report by EGPRN Chair: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ungan

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

17:30-17:45 Presentation of the Poster-Prize for the best poster presented in Dublin

By: Tiny van Merode

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

17:45-17:55 Introduction to the next EGPRN meeting

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

17:55-18:00 Closing of the scientific part by EGPRN Chairperson

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mehmet UNGAN

Room: Hogan Mezzanine Suite (Blue Room).

19:30-22:00 Social Night with Dinner, Music, Dance and Speeches!

Pre-booking essential - online or at the registration desk before 2pm on Friday.
Location: Abbey Tavern, Howth

Directions to Social Venue – The Abbey Tavern, Howth, Co Dublin:

Car: Take R105 and Clontarf Road to Abbey Street/R105 in Howth.

Bus: From Talbot Street Dublin City Centre, take the number 31a bus which stops on Abbey Street Howth just 50 meters from The Abbey Tavern.

Train: From your closest DART station (closest to the conference venue is Connolly Station), take any Northbound train destined for Howth. The Abbey Tavern is a pleasant 4 minute walk from Howth Dart station. Please allow yourself 15 minutes to walk from the conference venue to Connolly Station.

The following DART trains will take you to the venue on time:

  • Departs Connolly Station 18:28 – Arrive Howth 18:52
  • Departs Connolly Station 18:53 – Arrive Howth 19:18

Return Journey Options:

  • Depart Howth Station 22:55 – Arrive Connolly 23:19
  • Depart Howth Station 23:20 – Arrive Connolly 23:44
  • Depart Howth Station 23:55 – Arrive Connolly 00:19
09:30-12:00 2nd Meeting of the EGPRN Executive Board

Only for members of the Executive Board.
Room: The Executive Lounge Boardroom, Croke Park Hotel