The main purpose of this Working Group is to appraise existing guidelines that relate to the most relevant topics in the internal medicine practice, in both hospital and outpatient setting.
Chair of the Working Group:
Wiktoria Lesniak - Polish Society of Internal Medicine
Representatives to the Critical Appraisal of Guideline in Internal Medicine WG from EFIM Members' national societies are divided in 3 Task Force Groups that worked on different guidelines:
Methodology Group
- Wiktoria Lesniak - Chair - Polish Society of Internal Medicine
- Ignacio Marin-Leon - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
- Laura Morbidoni - FADOI Italy
- Francisco J. Medrano - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
- Alina Dima - Romanian Society of Internal Medicine
- Serhat Unal - Turkish Society of Internal Medicine
- Alexander Manolev - Macedonian Association of Internal Medicine
Acute Heart Failure Task Force
- Valentin A. Kokorin - Chair - Russian Scientific Society of Internal Medicine
- Alvaro González-Franco - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
- Vera N. Larina Russia - Russian Scientific Society of Internal Medicine
- Joana Pimenta - Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine
- Oskars Kalejs - Latvian Society of Internal Medicine
- Alberto M. Marra Italian Society of Internal Medicine – external expert
- Zdenek Monhart Czech Society of Internal Medicine – external expert
Hyperglycemia Task Force
- Sebastian Bevc - Slovenian Society of Internal Medicine
- Joerg Bojunga - German Society of Internal Medicine
- Biljana Ivanovska - Macedonian Association of Internal Medicine
- Oğuz Abdullah Uyaroğlu - Turkish Society of Internal Medicine
- Juana Carretero-Gómez - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
- Julio Wacker - Argentinian Society of Internal Medicine
- Aivars Lejnieks - Latvian Society of Internal Medicine
- LM Perez Belmonte - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
- Dimitros Patoulias - Hellenic Society of Internal Medicine
- Jan Skrha - Czech Society of Internal Medicine – external expert
- Ieva Ruza - Latvian Society of Internal Medicine - external expert
- Dror Dicker EFIM Executive Committee
- Ricardo Gomez Huelgas EFIM Executive Committee
Primary Contact:
Wiktoria LesniakLinks:
- Clinical practice guidelines adaptation for internists - An EFIM methodology
- Pulmonary embolism - An EFIM guideline critical appraisal and adaptation for practicing clinicians
- Community-acquired pneumonia - An EFIM guideline critical appraisal adaptation for internists
- Acute heart failure – an EFIM guideline critical appraisal and adaptation for internists
