Matching diagnostics development to clinical need: Target product profile development for a point of care test for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Point of care tests (POCTs) are increasingly being promoted for guiding the primary medical care of community acquired lower respiratory tract infections (CA-LRTI). POCT development has seldom been guided by explicitly identified clinical need and requirements of the intended users. Approaches for identifying POCT priorities and developing target product profiles (TPPs) for POCTs in primary medical care are not well developed, and there is no published TPP for a CA-LRTI POCT aimed at developed countries.

Methods

We conducted workshops with expert stakeholders and a survey with primary care clinicians to produce a target product profile (TPP) to guide the development of a clinically relevant and technologically feasible POCT for CA-LRTI.

Results

Participants

SUBMITTER: Gal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070214 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature