JPIAMR 2022 Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Network name: One-Stop DIagnostics to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing in COMmunity Patients with Symptoms of RTI (DIAPCOM)
• Type: Network looking for partner
• Organisation: Imperial College London
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Diagnostics
• Focal area(s):
  • Identify actions needed to support the development of new tools, technologies and systems for diagnosis and surveillance.

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

• Keywords:

  Point of care testing; respiratory tract infections;antibiotic prescring;AMR

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Clinicians/Scientists (doctors,pharmacists,nurses/scientists) with expertise in AMR/managing patients who present with symptoms of respiratory tract infections in Primary/Community Care

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The DIAPCOM network will assemble relevant evidence and undertake cost-effectiveness and clinical-effectiveness modelling for the value of One-Stop point of care testing (OSPOCT) in a variety of community care sectors to eliminate/confirm a diagnosis of Covid 19 or Influenza in patients presenting with symptoms of respiratory tract infection (RTI). The Network will also model, using published evidence and Delphi techniques, the value of C-reactive Protein (CRP) as a negative prognostic diagnostic test in those patients with negative Covid 19 and Influenza to avoid prescribing of antibiotics at the index consultation with a healthcare clinician. Through workshops and consensus groups the Network will develop an algorithm for managing patients presenting with symptoms of RTI and incorporate this into a White Paper. Barriers to implementation will be considered and good practice examples from countries employing OSPOCT will be identified. Further research questions and health technology assessments will be identified. Dissemination and publications will be undertaken together with assessable outputs from this process.

Jonathan Cooke

• Organisation: Imperial College London
• Position: Professor
• E-mail: j.cooke@imperial.ac.uk
• Web: www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.cooke