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Dr Emma Thomas-Jones

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Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director for Infections, Inflammation and Immunity Trials at the Centre for Trials Research (CTR) at Cardiff University. Personal views.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human health.

Bur it's GROSSLY under reported

This study showed 4% of ALL deaths at a major London hospital were actually caused AMR but NONE were on the death certificate as cause of death.

09.01.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

11/ Pragmatic designs allow real-world evaluation of clinical effectiveness, but not implementation processes, which would allow scale-up of the intervention if found to be effective. i.e. is the intervention generalisable? We need more effectiveness-implementation hybrid designs.

09.01.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful to see this work of our group in the public domain. Thanks to Prof Carrol for her inspiring leadership.

09.01.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1/Β Delighted to report the results of the Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH) trial in @LancetChildAdol
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

09.01.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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