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Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics

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A clinical data review to support investigation of a European outbreak of acute severe hepatitis of unknown etiology (ASHep-UE)

ONGOING
IORD category: COVID-19, Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Philippa Matthews · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 13 May 2022

Since 31 March 2022, there has been an increase in cases of children presenting with severe liver disease of unknown cause (termed ‘acute severe hepatitis of unknown etiology’ (ASHep-UE)) across multiple countries including the UK. Most of these have been children aged 1–6 years, leading to hospital ... READ MORE

Identifying “at-risk” populations for E. coli bacteraemias

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections, Specific Pathogens
Chief Investigator: Prof Sarah Walker · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 14 Jan 2022

Since June 2011, every bloodstream infection caused by a bacteria called Escherichia coli (E. coli) has to be reported to the UK Health Security Agency. Monthly counts are published regularly, as well as annual reports describing the overall trend, distribution by age and sex, and geographic ... READ MORE

Defining normal response to culture-positive and culture-negative sepsis

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Sarah Walker, Prof David Eyre · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 17 Dec 2021

Longer than necessary antibiotic courses in patients with sepsis (an infection of the blood) may lead to side-effects like C diff diarrhoea, and increase antibiotic resistance. But not switching antibiotics promptly when patients don’t respond or get worse is harmful. In hospital, lots of blood ... READ MORE

Analysis of 5 year trends in respiratory virus infections of haematology inpatients at Oxford University Hospitals

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections, Specific Pathogens
Chief Investigator: Dr Toby Eyre · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 09 Apr 2021

Respiratory viral infections can cause serious illnesses in patients with weakened immune systems, such as those who have undergone a bone marrow transplant, or are undergoing chemotherapy for blood cancers. The Haematology department at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) routinely tests for these ... READ MORE

An epidemiological review of paediatric respiratory viruses in acute hospital presentations with respiratory symptoms

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections, Specific Pathogens
Chief Investigator: Dr Nicholas Richens · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 09 Apr 2021

Respiratory viral pathogens have long been known to be responsible for a large burden of seasonal acute paediatric emergency department presentations. We are investigating the local epidemiology of these viral agents which prompt emergency department presentation. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has ... READ MORE

Global Research on AntiMicrobial resistance (GRAM) Project

COMPLETED
IORD category: Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotics, Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Professor Susanna Dunachie · Sponsor: Oxford University · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 05 May 2020

The Global Research on AntiMicrobial resistance (GRAM) Project is the flagship study of the Oxford GBD (Global Burden of Disease) Group, and aims to provide robust, comprehensive and timely evidence of the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 195 countries and territories. The Oxford GBD ... READ MORE

The microbiological features associated with greater risk of recurrent UTI

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Gail Hayward · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 10 Apr 2020

Around half of all women will suffer from at least one urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime, and it is the most common bacterial infection treated by General Practitioners (GPs). Up to 800,000 women in the UK suffer from frequent UTIs each year. Such ‘recurrent UTI’ causes painful and ... READ MORE

Clinical implications of sputum bacterial pathogens in asthma

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Timothy Hinks · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 29 Mar 2019

Acute exacerbations of asthma are often triggered by airways infection and a proportion of these infections are due to bacteria. We know that a group of patients with asthma have chronic airways infection with Haemophilus influenzae and this may be related to poor symptom control and more frequent ... READ MORE

Can we estimate resistance in bloodstream infections from resistance in other types of specimen?

COMPLETED
IORD category: Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotics, Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Tim Peto · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 17 Sep 2018

In order to reduce the threat of antimicrobial resistance, a first key step is to understand how much resistance there is. This is typically done by looking at bacteria causing serious infections, particularly bloodstream infections. However, growing bacteria from blood usually requires ... READ MORE

What diagnostic codes are used in inpatient admission records for patients who have bacteraemia?

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Sarah Walker · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 17 Sep 2018

Routinely collected electronic health record data is increasingly being used as a fast and inexpensive way to investigate different diseases. Often these diseases are identified by “diagnostic codes” which are assigned to every admission to hospital, either as the primary code (“the main condition ... READ MORE

Determinants of antibiotic treatment duration and outcomes in cellulitis

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Professor Martin Llewelyn · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Brighton and Sussex University Medical School · Approval date: 18 May 2018

Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the skin and most commonly affects the legs where the affected area becomes red, hot, swollen and painful. Approximately 1000 patients are admitted to Oxford hospitals with cellulitis each year. Cellulitis is treated with antibiotics, given through the vein ... READ MORE

Contribution of “sepsis” to mortality in Oxfordshire

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Andrew Brent, Prof Tim Peto · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 23 Mar 2018

The Sepsis Trust estimates that 44,000 people in the UK die every year from sepsis. However, exactly where these estimates come from, and how reliable they are is unclear. “Sepsis” is generally used to mean an infection of the blood – where bugs get into the blood and cause high temperature, low ... READ MORE

Outcomes following “sepsis” in Oxfordshire

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Andrew Brent, Prof Tim Peto · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 23 Mar 2018

The Sepsis Trust estimates that 44,000 people in the UK die every year from sepsis, and this is currently the focus of much attention in hospitals and the media. “Sepsis” is generally used to mean an infection of the blood – where bugs get into the blood and cause high temperature, low pulse, low ... READ MORE

Contribution of inflammation to infectious and supposedly non-infectious respiratory conditions leading to inpatient admission

ONGOING
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Sarah Walker · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 23 Mar 2018

Patients are usually defined by their clinical symptoms, for example pneumonia as opposed to bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, scientists are starting to work out that sometimes the same underlying problem can lead to different clinical presentations. One example ... READ MORE

Changes in the incidence and importance of endocarditis as a diagnosis code in Oxfordshire hospitals

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Sarah Walker · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 21 Jul 2016

In 2008 guidance recommended no longer using antibiotics to prevent people getting infections of the heart after having surgery at their dentists. This was because there was no strong evidence showing this was necessary, and to reduce overall use of antibiotics to avoid increasing antibiotic ... READ MORE

Do birth characteristics influence susceptibility to childhood infections?

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Stephen Kennedy · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 25 Feb 2015

Newborns differ a great deal in terms of their size at birth. In particular, their weight, length and head circumference are determined by how well they have grown in the womb and their age at birth, i.e. premature babies are smaller than babies born at term. We seek to understand whether these ... READ MORE

Can we identify surgical site infections using routine electronic health record data?

ONGOING
IORD category: Electronic Health Records, Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Prof Sarah Walker · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: Oxford University · Approval date: 25 Feb 2015

Millions of operations are carried out in the NHS every year. Infection is a rare but important complication that can happen after surgery. Specific operations are routinely monitored every year in every NHS hospital to see how often these post-surgery infections occur. This is very time-consuming ... READ MORE

Using secondary data sources to investigate incidence and severity of respiratory infections

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Phuong Quan · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 07 Jun 2012

Summary of findings: In this project, we looked at the hospital database of all people admitted to hospital, and found that admissions for pneumonia had almost tripled over the space of 15 years, an alarming increase. By looking at different types of data available in IORD, it became clear that ... READ MORE

A search for temporospatial clusters of blood stream infection in intensive care and high dependency units

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Angela Minassian · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 14 Nov 2011

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Statistical Network Modelling of Ward Transfer Patterns and their Relationship to Hospital Acquired Infections

COMPLETED
IORD category: Electronic Health Records, Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: John Finney · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OU Dept of Statistics · Approval date: 22 Jul 2011

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Microbiology of Bronchiectasis and Cystic fibrosis

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr David Wyllie · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 05 Nov 2010

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Infection and mortality in patients with bronchoalveolar lavage/pleural fluid samples

COMPLETED
IORD category: Specific Infections
Chief Investigator: Dr Susan Williamson · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 04 Mar 2010

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