Welcome to the ODHIN project

ODHIN (Optimizing delivery of health care interventions) was a four-year project (2011-2014) involving research institutions from nine European countries funded under the 7th Framework Programme.
The general aim of the project was to improve the delivery of health care interventions by understanding how better to translate the results of clinical research into everyday clinical practice. The research focused on the implementation of identification and brief intervention (IBI) programmes for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption (HHAC) in primary health care (PHC).

WP 1 – Management and Coordination

Lead by Antoni Gual - Clinic Foundation for Biomedical Research (FCRB), Spain

The main challenge of the coordination of the ODHIN project was achieving integration of the various research fields included in the project. ODHIN combined a global overview provided by the survey (WP4), the systematic review (WP2), the modelling (WP3) and the assessment tool (WP6) with an ambitious stepped cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT - WP5) that will assess the efficacy/efficiency of alternative approaches aimed at overcoming the two main barriers identified to the dissemination and implementation of brief interventions (time and training).

The main objective of the coordination tasks consisted in creating mutual synergies between the various work packages. In order to reach this objective, efficient communication channels between partners were set up by the coordination team, who ensured that tasks were delivered within the agreed timescales, and also strived enhance the synergies between work packages.

 

Work Package 1 outputs