Eivind Berge1, Gary A Ford2, Christian Stapf3, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman4, Urs Fischer5, Sarah Coveney6, Christian Weimar7, Marcel Arnold5, Anita Arsovska8, Robin Lemmens9, Paul J Nederkoorn10, Peter J Kelly6. 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 2. Department of Stroke Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 3. Department of Neuroscience, CRCHUM, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 4. Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 5. 5Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 6. Stroke Service, Mater University Hospital, and Stroke Clinical Trials Network Ireland, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 7. Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. 8. University Clinic of Neurology, University "Ss Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia. 9. Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 10. 10Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: One of the aims of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) is to facilitate academic, multinational clinical stroke research. However, despite examples of successful regional and national stroke research networks and collaborative groups, there is no organisational structure at a European level that can facilitate multinational clinical stroke research. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a project including a survey and a workshop and involving stroke researchers in the ESO, we sought to identify the challenges faced by existing clinical stroke research networks, to define the purpose and roles of any future European stroke research collaboration, and to propose an organisational structure. RESULTS: The survey and workshop gave strong support for an alliance model with independent network members, with the purpose of facilitating clinical stroke research through improved coordination and communication, provision of support, education, and advocacy and communication with other stakeholders. The focus of a proposed European clinical stroke research alliance should be multinational randomised-controlled trials in acute care, prevention and rehabilitation, but the alliance could also support other forms of multi-national clinical stroke research. CONCLUSION: There is an interest for increased collaboration on multinational clinical stroke research in Europe, in the form of an alliance of independent research networks and collaborative groups. The ESO Trials Network Committee will continue consultation with existing stroke research networks and collaborative groups, and other key stakeholders, to assess the feasibility and support for development of an ESO Trials Alliance.
INTRODUCTION: One of the aims of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) is to facilitate academic, multinational clinical stroke research. However, despite examples of successful regional and national stroke research networks and collaborative groups, there is no organisational structure at a European level that can facilitate multinational clinical stroke research. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a project including a survey and a workshop and involving stroke researchers in the ESO, we sought to identify the challenges faced by existing clinical stroke research networks, to define the purpose and roles of any future European stroke research collaboration, and to propose an organisational structure. RESULTS: The survey and workshop gave strong support for an alliance model with independent network members, with the purpose of facilitating clinical stroke research through improved coordination and communication, provision of support, education, and advocacy and communication with other stakeholders. The focus of a proposed European clinical stroke research alliance should be multinational randomised-controlled trials in acute care, prevention and rehabilitation, but the alliance could also support other forms of multi-national clinical stroke research. CONCLUSION: There is an interest for increased collaboration on multinational clinical stroke research in Europe, in the form of an alliance of independent research networks and collaborative groups. The ESO Trials Network Committee will continue consultation with existing stroke research networks and collaborative groups, and other key stakeholders, to assess the feasibility and support for development of an ESO Trials Alliance.
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Clinical stroke research; stroke research collaboration; stroke research network
Authors: Eivind Berge; Gary A Ford; Philip M W Bath; Christian Stapf; H Bart van der Worp; Jacques Demotes; Joseph Broderick; Rustam Al-Shahi Salman; Kennedy R Lees Journal: Int J Stroke Date: 2015-01-12 Impact factor: 5.266
Authors: Peter Kelly; Rustam A Salman; Anita Arsovska; Diederik Wj Dippel; Urs Fischer; Gary A Ford; Blanca Fuentes; Robin Lemmens; John C Marshall; Paul J Nederkoorn; Thompson Robinson; Christian Weimar; Eivind Berge Journal: Eur Stroke J Date: 2019-05-07