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-by Kerry Hood, Becky Cannings-John & Dave Gillespie<\/p>\n

We dusted off our passport to go to what was for many of us our first face to face international conference in three years.\u00a0 The words \u2018international conference\u2019 can imply something cold and business like, but GRIN meetings are more like a large family gathering \u2013 with plenty of singing.\u00a0 Formed by a collaboration between different departments of primary care across Europe as an informal annual meeting where active researchers on infections in primary care came together to discuss what they had been doing and hatch plans for future research.\u00a0 Whilst it has grown to about 100 people at this meeting and has been an integral part of many Europe wide research programs, it retains the feeling of a family, sharing challenges and enthusiasm with very little in the way of egos or scent marking.<\/p>\n

From their website: “GRIN (General practice Research on Infections Network, formerly General practice Respiratory Infections Network) is a European network of researchers studying respiratory tract and other infections in primary care.”<\/p>\n

Having had a global pandemic since we last met had not only delayed our meeting, but also fed into our research, with two sessions exploring COVID-19 and of particular interest was a number of studies which had compared the post COVID syndrome (or Long COVID) to other lower respiratory tract infections. Then we moved into sessions on the management of respiratory infections, antimicrobial stewardship and urinary tract infections. There were a number of talks around optimising antibiotic treatment durations for common infections \u2013 with interest in both fixed duration comparisons and the merits of \u201ccompleting the course\u201d versus \u201cstopping when you feel better\u201d. This is a clear area where further research is needed and it was interesting to join in on discussions around this.<\/p>\n

What really impressed us was the number of studies that even if they were run in only one country had researchers from multiple countries involved were very high, as well as a number of offers of making data available if people wanted to do further analysis.<\/p>\n

We had a very good showing of research from Cardiff, with presentations from the Centre for Trials Research, the Division of Population Medicine and the School of Pharmacy \u2013 representing just how multidisciplinary we are as a group.\u00a0 We were the envy of many with having the SAIL databank in Wales which provided data for many of our projects.\u00a0 The most novel use of which linked registration data for domiciliary care workers to health records to look at the impact of COVID on their health. Another key strength of SAIL is the use of the newly acquired microbiology datasets and by linking it to primary care records will allow us to shine light on the relationship between the antibiotic dispensing behaviour of clinicians and resistance, another topic of interest at the conference.<\/p>\n

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As is always the case the meeting finished with our brains buzzing with new ideas and we felt reinvigorated.\u00a0 Kerry took a sight seeing walk with the research team from the University of Antwerp which was a chance to kick back a little and relax \u2013 as always come away with some non-work reading suggestions, broadening her mind and horizons in more ways than just for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"-by Kerry Hood, Becky Cannings-John & Dave Gillespie We dusted off our passport to go to what was for many of us our first face to face international conference in […]","protected":false},"author":1544,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dIou-Cv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2444,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/international-society-of-quality-of-life-research-isoqol-conference-2022-and-beyond\/","url_meta":{"origin":2387,"position":0},"title":"International Society of Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Conference 2022 And Beyond","author":"Timothy Pickles","date":"December 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The 29th International Society of Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Conference was held in Prague on the 19th to 22nd October 2022. 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