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The value of diagnostics to combat antimicrobial resistance by optimising antibiotic use

Descripción del proyecto

Una estrategia paneuropea para combatir la resistencia a los antimicrobianos

La resistencia a los antimicrobianos (RAM) provoca muchas muertes en todo el mundo. Los tratamientos con antibióticos requieren una estratificación para mejorar la respuesta clínica de los pacientes y mitigar el efecto de la RAM. El objetivo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos VALUE-Dx es formular recomendaciones políticas y normativas, y estudiar los criterios de valoración y los escollos para la adopción de diagnósticos de infecciones respiratorios agudas extrahospitalarias (IRA-EH). El consorcio, integrado por seis empresas de diagnóstico «in vitro» y veinte socios no industriales, definirá los algoritmos clínicos y los requisitos de los usuarios para las pruebas de diagnóstico de IRA-EH. La capacidad de los diagnósticos se probará y demostrará utilizando la infraestructura paneuropea de investigación clínica y de laboratorios, empleando diseños innovadores de ensayos adaptativos para evaluar los nuevos diagnósticos de IRA-EH.

Objetivo

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of great public health concern, causing numerous losses of lives worldwide and threatening to reverse many of the considerable strides modern medicine has made over the last century. There is a need to stratify antibiotic and alternative treatments in terms of the actual benefit for the patient, improving patient outcome and limit the impact on AMR. High quality, effective and appropriate diagnostic tests to steer appropriate use of antibiotics are available. However, implementation of these tests into daily healthcare practice is hampered due to lack of insight in the medical, technological and health economical value and limited knowledge about psychosocial, ethical, regulatory and organisational barriers to their implementation into clinical practice.

VALUE-Dx will define and understand these value indicators and barriers to adoption of diagnostics of Community-Acquired Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (CA-ARTI) in order to develop and improve health economic models to generate insight in the whole value of diagnostics and develop policy and regulatory recommendations. In addition, efficient clinical algorithms and user requirement specifications of tests will be developed fuelling the medical and technological value of CA-ARTI diagnostics. The value of diagnostics will be tested and demonstrated in a unique pan-European clinical and laboratory research infrastructure allowing for innovative adaptive trial designs to evaluate novel CA-ARTI diagnostics. Close and continuous interaction with the VALUE-Dx multi-stakeholder platform provides for optimal alignment of VALUE-Dx activities with stakeholder opinions, expert knowledge and interests.

A variety of dissemination and advocacy measures will promote wide-spread adoption of clinical and cost-effective innovative diagnostics to achieve more personalized, evidence-based antibiotic prescription in order to transform clinical practice, improve patient outcomes and combat AMR.

Régimen de financiación

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinador

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 454 223,32
Dirección
PRINSSTRAAT 13
2000 Antwerpen
Bélgica

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Región
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 2 385 237,50

Participantes (26)