Condor project22 Jul 2020 09:13
The program aims to serve as a single national route for evaluating the accuracy of new diagnostic tests in hospitals and in community healthcare settings as well as determining which could be the most valuable to the NHS.
“The CONDOR platform will put the new tests through their paces,” said Fiona Watt, executive chair of U.K. Research and Innovation’s Medical Research Council. “The best ones can then be chosen for deployment in healthcare settings, care homes and the community, boosting our ability to detect and control the virus that causes COVID-19.”
This includes gauging their effectiveness in emergency departments, critical and acute medical care, and primary care settings as well as at care homes and hospital-at-home teams. CONDOR will also follow patients with a positive antibody test result to see whether they develop new infections.