MISSION STATEMENT

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.

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.