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Mission Statement
IGEH/INRO is a collaborative non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO)
based in Vienna, Austria, with it activities internationally directed. Our mission
is to improve the recovery of patients who suffer a brain or spinal cord injury
through helping hospitals implement evidence-based medical care, assisting in
the reengineering of their trauma systems to better treat neurotrauma patients
and collaborating on clinical research to continuously improve the scientific
foundations of evidence-based guidelines and protocols. Research has shown that
when evidence-based medicine is practiced in the critical, acute phase, neurotrauma
patients have improved outcomes resulting in reduced hospital care costs and
substantially reduced long term care costs. Implementing evidence-based medical
protocols is often complex and challenging, and this is why external assistance
is frequently helpful in reorganizing trauma systems to be responsive to such
protocols. Rigorous and high quality clinical research is essential in "closing-the-loop"
to continuously improve the recommendations in evidence-based guidelines and
protocols.
Making Our Mission a Reality
The following steps and activities make our mission real:
Actively seek funding opportunities (grants, donations, corporate and government
funding, etc.) to support IGEH/INRO's mission specific projects.
Initiate, coordinate and manage funded projects and activities through out
Europe and beyond, consistent with the implementation of our mission.
We collaborate with trauma hospitals in implementing evidence-based guidelines
and on utilizing our automated interactive patient database to provide feedback
on neurotrauma patient care and recovery.
Educate and train health professionals on the many evidence-based guidelines
and protocols available in the area of neurotrauma and to assist them with the
complex task of putting them into practice.
Publish and disseminate resultsinformation about IGEH/INRO's
international collaborative clinical research efforts.
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