PROJECT SUMMARY

Antimicrobial resistance is a major global challenge and an important priority area for research and healthcare in Australia.

Monitoring the appropriateness of use of antimicrobials across our healthcare system, including hospitals, primary care, aged care and in animal health, is a foundational requirement for antimicrobial stewardship programs, to drive better patient outcomes while limiting the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.

This research data infrastructure grant will bring together leaders in antimicrobial stewardship from human and animal health with experts in digital health.

The grant will address an urgent unmet need to establish effective antimicrobial use appropriateness surveillance in the community.

We will utilise natural language processing and machine learning to transform clinical and antimicrobial prescribing data from electronic health records.

This will support the automation and scaling of the National Antimicrobial Prescribing Surveys, which are used to drive stewardship programs.

The cross-cutting activities across these groups will establish standardisation of how antimicrobials will be evaluated for appropriateness, and how this data can be optimally aggregated and presented to the community.

The National Antimicrobial Prescribing Research Platform will be a highly sought, unique resource for researchers undertaking research in antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, and health services research to improved clinical delivery.

PROGRESS

Our project team has met milestone 1.1: a data infrastructure research collaborative is established.

OUR TEAM