Our projects

1.	Understanding the health system implications for delivering integrated POCT for infectious disease in primary care settings.

Status

Completed

Year

2020

Named PI/Co-PI

Carla Treloar

Other investigators

L. Lafferty, K. Drysdale, S. Lewis, Kelly-Hanku A, Monaghan R, Guy R, Applegate T.

Lead EMCR

Lise Lafferty

# of EMCRs

2

Regional setting

Australia

Discipline

Social Science

The Problem

Despite the public health benefits of POC testing for infectious diseases, the Australian health system is yet to develop a national framework for integration of multi-disease POC testing and treatment and to consider how POC can support wholistic, integrated care and in relation to other priorities and needs. We will explore participants’ views of POC in relation to models of scaled up delivery of health care and in relation to the organization and structures of health systems.

The Solution

This social science research project seeks to identify opportunities for integrated, multi-disease (infectious diseases) service provision of point-of-care testing supported by national and state/territory health systems within Australia.

Related Publications

b

Pre-market health systems barriers and enablers to infectious diseases point-of-care diagnostics in Australia: qualitative interviews with key informants.

BMC Infect Dis. 2024

Lafferty L, Applegate T, Lewis S, Drysdale K, Monaghan R, Kelly-Hanku A, Guy R, Treloar C. More info.

b

Selected oral presentation “Enablers and barriers to scaling up infectious disease point-of-care testing in the primary care setting” at the 1st Australian Conference on point of care testing for infectious disease, POC23 March 15th, 2023