Work Package 6 - value-dx

Work Package 6

Education and Advocacy

Objectives

To disseminate the findings generated in VALUE-Dx by using various forms of communication and educational activities and publications at all levels of stakeholder platforms to promote their uptake and implementation in daily clinical practice and policy.
To develop innovative, effective ways to disseminate information for creating awareness of optimal diagnosis and prognosis of CA-ARTI to prevent unnecessary prescription and use of antibiotics, to improve coverage with antibiotics, and thus limit antibiotic resistance and associated health and socioeconomic impacts.
To develop and to tailor materials to support the adoption of CA ARTI-Dx in European community care settings.
To develop and implement the VALUE-Dx Course.

Work Package Co-Leads

Murat Akova - ESCMID

Murat Akova

ESCMID

Renuka Gadde

Renuka Gadde

BD

PUBLICATIONS

Headway made for Point Prevalence Audit Survey in primary and long-term care settings

IMI article - Technology, not instinct, should guide antibiotic prescribing. A Q&A with Herman Goossens

WP4 kick-off meeting in Zeist

Diagnostics in fighting antimicrobial resistance: A joint session between ESCMID and ERS at the ERS International Congress 2019

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