Tender: Health Economic Model to Improve Blood Culture Pre-Analytical Pathway in England

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Supplier needed to develop and update a health economic model using English real-world data to estimate the clinical and financial impacts of improving the pre-analytical phase of blood culture practices; the model will inform future national guidance on diagnostics and care pathways for detecting infection and reducing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The work includes updating the existing model with English RWD, validating model inputs, assumptions and results with subject matter experts and updating the report, adding greater detail to capture resource use, costs and benefits, conducting additional analyses to address other challenges, designing a flexible user interface for organisations to input their own data and generate trust-specific outcomes and business cases, and developing and submitting the report as a manuscript to a peer-reviewed (and possibly pre-print) journal to provide referenceable evidence. The project aims to support changes to the blood culture pathway to save lives and improve patient outcomes from sepsis.