The Opportunity of Point-of-Care Diagnostics in General Practice: Modelling the Effects on Antimicrobial Resistance

Journal article

Our results show that implementing a hypothetical diagnostic strategy for all CA-ARTI patients in primary care raises the costs of consultations, while lowering antibiotic consumption and AMR. Novel health-economic methods to assess and communicate the potential benefits related to AMR may be required for interventions with limited gains for individual patients, but considerable potential related to antibiotic consumption and AMR.

Authors: van der Pol, S; Jansen, DEMC; van der Velden, AW; Butler, CC; Verheij, TJM

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: PharmacoEconomics
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 823-833
• Publication date: 2022-06-29
• DOI: 10.1007/s40273-022-01165-3
• EISSN: 1179-2027
• ISSN: 1170-7690
• Language: English
• Keywords: Point-of-care testing; Consumption (sociology); Antibiotic resistance; Medicine; Emergency medicine; Psychological intervention; Point of care; Intensive care medicine; Health care; Diagnostic test; Environmental health; Antibiotics; Health economics; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Economics; Internal medicine; Economic growth; Test (biology); Nursing; Primary care; Public health; Family medicine; Respiratory tract infections