"About this project" button with text

[pascalmfrey]

For promotional purposes I think we will need an "about this project" button somewhere discretely but still easily visible placed on the frontend.

If you agree, I will draft a short text describing the project with it's purpose and goals, as well as a brief description of Joinbox and the Institute for Infectious Diseases / Anresis Database (= Swiss bacterial resistance competence centre) as providers of tech and data, and post it here for your review and inputs.

[fxstr]

Sounds good to me!

[fxstr]

@Alpascal Do you have an update concerning this issue? How's the about text progressing?

[pascalmfrey]

For the English version of an introductory text in the "about" section, I'd suggest the text below, feel free to edit here. The German version is still on its way (as you can see in the GDoc).

*An empirical antibiotic therapy (EAT) is an important concept and a standard procedure for the treatment of many different types of infections in clinical medicine. Its need is based on the lack of knowledge of the causative agent at an early stage of the disease - usually when the patient presents to health professionals. EAT is based on epidemiological data on most frequently isolated pathogens and their antibiotic resistance pattern for certain diseases (e.g., S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and M.catarrhalis for otitis media [middle ear infection]). Identification of the causative agent due to diagnostic procedures (e.g., culture of middle ear fluid) usually leads to an adaptation of the EAT to a pathogen directed therapy, which generally results in narrowing of the therapeutic spectrum. This therapy shift usually aims at reducing selective pressure, which is an important measure to avoid the accumulation of resistant subsets of populations and helps to avoid the spread of resistant pathogens. The adequacy of empirical as well as pathogen-directed use of antibiotics is an important determinant of patient outcomes and may play a role in the emergence of bacterial antibiotic resistance.

Although EAT is a vital and widely applied concept in clinical medicine, it is not yet routinely guided by state-of-the-art technology using the latest evidence and epidemiological data. For clinicians in Switzerland the main source for guiding EAT comes from local guidelines (booklets with in-hospital recommendations), which are often outdated due to an update latency of several years, or time-consuming disseminated internet resources with frequently restricted access.

Therefore, we initiated the project INFECT, an INterface For Empirical antimicrobial ChemoTherapy, aimed at bringing up-to-date bacterial resistance data from bench to bedside. So far, this first prototype has been established as a proof-of-concept, which is planned to be equipped with advanced functionalities in the time coming, including the ability to independently import data from anresis.ch, the Swiss Centre for Antibiotic resistance, into its database. INFECT aims at providing a fast, mobile and easy to use, fully automatic self-updating and platform independent tool to support empirical treatment choices tailored to the resistance epidemiology in the patients’ geographical region.

In time, INFECT is planned to include automated statistical analysis capabilities through implementation of the statistical software R on our Ubuntu Linux web server.
This will allow the use of statistical algorithms, like automated outbreak detection, resistance pattern recognition, and might even allow resistance forecasting using mathematical models on antibiotic consumption data in the future, while supporting clinicians with an easy-to-use tool for best empirical antimicrobial therapy.*

[fxstr]

@fabianjordi Could you implement a «About this project»/«Information» button and style/display the text (on click)?

[fabianjordi]

@Alpascal Ist dieser Info-Text relevant für deine Verkaufs/Präsentationsbemühungen? Bitte schick' ihn mir mal, dann schauen wir, im Wissen um seine Länge, wo und wie wir ihn implementieren. Merci!

[fxstr]

@fabianjordi Text's above.

[fabianjordi]

@fxstr «aber do stoht jo nüt über üs drinne?» – aber ok, de... warti no uf d Antwort vom Päscu und integriere de das.

[pascalmfrey]

Sorry for taking so long to answer... anyway, here's it:

The text is in the gdocs file (also linked above), and includes the "about project" part (where the project itself is explained with some background), a legend part (where colour of tiles is explained), a disclaimer, and a "team" part (where the team and affiliations are listed, including a brief description of Joinbox (taken from joinbox.com, please feel free to change!).

Please only use the English text for the time being, as the German translation isn't finished yet (mea culpa...)