Descrizione del progetto
Gestione personalizzata del dolore cervicale e della lombalgia
Dolori cervicali e lombalgie sono le principali cause di disabilità in tutto il mondo, con 7 adulti su 10 che sperimentano questo tipo di dolore in qualche momento della loro vita. La gestione della malattia influisce sia sul benessere del paziente che sui costi dell’assistenza sanitaria ma spesso si basa su informazioni limitate e basate sull’evidenza. In quest’ottica, il progetto Back-UP, finanziato dall’UE, intende sviluppare un modello prognostico per supportare la gestione di dolori cervicali e lombalgie specifica per ogni paziente. L’idea è quella di personalizzare la gestione e il follow-up in base alle esigenze dei singoli pazienti e di prevedere l’esito di un determinato trattamento. Lo strumento Back-UP utilizzerà le informazioni cliniche, comprese le caratteristiche personali e di salute dei pazienti, insieme ai dati sui fattori psicologici, comportamentali e socioeconomici correlati a dolori cervicali e lombalgie.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
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H2020-SC1-2017-CNECT-2
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
46022 Valencia
Spagna
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