From Tim Coats - an invitation to complete a short survey.
Dear Colleague,
The University of Pittsburgh is leading a large, NIH-funded, multicentre
trial in the US (ProCESS) looking at the early management of patients
presenting with severe infection. ANZICS and the ESICM are applying for
funding to do parallel studies in Australasia and Europe. There's also a
great opportunity for the UK to do something similar as the Department
of Health have put out a call for clinical trials in emergency medicine.
ICNARC with the ICS will be collaborating with the College of Emergency
Medicine and the Society of Acute Medicine to submit a
multi-disciplinary bid.
As a prelude to this study, we are very interested in knowing how you
currently manage these patients. We strongly suspect doctors in
different specialties and countries have different approaches. We have
designed a short survey to assess these approaches and provide an
accurate comparison. Our survey asks how you would manage two different
patients presenting to your Emergency Department with pneumonia.
This invitation is being sent out with the help of a number of the
professional bodies and societies. If you receive more than one
invitation, please accept our apologies, and respond to only one.
The survey should take you 10 minutes to complete. We will not collect
any information that could identify you personally or the hospital where
you work.
Click on the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=467543748887 and
you will be directed to our automated survey. If you have any queries
or have trouble accessing the site, please contact Michael Reade
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Others involved in distributing thie survey to their own professional
groups are:
Michael Reade, Visiting Instructor, CRISMA Laboratory, Department of
Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Derek Angus, Professor and Director, CRISMA Laboratory, Department of
Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Anna Batchelor, President, Intensive Care Society and Consultant
Anaesthetist, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
Julian Bion, Reader & Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine, Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
Kathy Rowan, Director, Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre
(ICNARC)
Mervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine and Director of the
Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University College
London, UK
Carl Waldmann, President-elect, Intensive Care Society and Director of
Intensive Care, Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals Trust, Reading
Duncan Young, Director of Research, Intensive Care Society and
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Derek Bell, Professor of Acute Medicine, Imperial College London and the
Society for Acute Medicine
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