Description du projet
Gestion personnalisée des douleurs cervicales et lombaires
Les douleurs cervicales et lombaires sont les principales causes d’invalidité dans le monde, 7 adultes sur 10 en souffrant à un moment ou l’autre de leur vie. La prise en charge des maladies implique à la fois le bien-être des patients et les coûts des soins de santé, mais elle repose souvent sur des informations limitées fondées sur des données probantes. Dans cette optique, le projet Back-UP, financé par l’UE, entend développer un modèle de pronostic permettant de faciliter la gestion des douleurs cervicales et lombaires du patient. L’idée est d’adapter la gestion et le suivi des besoins individuels des patients et d’anticiper le résultat d’un traitement spécifique. L’outil Back-UP s’appuiera sur des informations cliniques, notamment les caractéristiques personnelles et sanitaires des patients, et sur des données concernant les facteurs psychologiques, comportementaux et socio-économiques liés aux douleurs cervicales et lombaires.
Objectif
Neck and low back pain (NLBP) are leading causes for years lived with disability in Europe and worldwide. About 70% of all adults experience NLBP at some point in their lives, and both conditions are among the top ten in terms of overall disease burden expressed as disability adjusted life years. Management of NLBP is a difficult challenge for healthcare professionals since their decisions have a decisive impact on the patient’s future health and welfare, as well as on the economic burden on the public and private healthcare systems. However, health professionals often lack appropriate information to tailor the management and follow-up of individual patients and to predict the outcome of a certain treatment. At European level, diverse research initiatives are undergoing at this moment for tackling NLBP from diverse angles, including biomarkers (PainOmics), pain self-management (selfBACK), lifestyle and workplace conditions (AHA), or patients stratification (STarT Back). Back-UP project provides a wider vision of NLBP, bringing together the research groups that are leading these and other innovative approaches to create a prognostic model to underpin more effective and efficient management of NLBP based on the digital representation of multidimensional clinical information and on simulations of the outcomes of possible interventions. Patient-specific models will provide a personalised evaluation of the patient case, using multidimensional health data from the following sources: personal, health, psychological, behavioural, and socioeconomic factors related to NLBP; biological patient characteristics, including musculoskeletal structures and function, and molecular data; and workplace and lifestyle risk factors. Back-UP will provide health, well-being and economic benefits to different user profiles (clinicians, employers / insurance companies and patients) and will create a channel for sharing information during the rehabilitation and return to work process.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
46022 Valencia
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.