We are delighted to have received full funding from the UK Sepsis Trust for the Improving Patient Care & Research on Sepsis Scotland (IPCReSS) study. This aims to determine, across an entire population, whether Scottish Electronic Medical Records (EMR) can be used to identify opportunities to diagnose sepsis earlier and that could, in turn, generate novel interventions.

This will involve new ways of analysing routinely collected datasets to assess the feasibility of diagnosing sepsis earlier. Example datasets include patient vital signs as well as laboratory data such as blood and culture results. If this is successful, we will then explore the feasibility of using these findings to predict those patients that are at highest risk of delayed diagnosis of sepsis, paving the way toward earlier intervention.

The duration of this exploratory study will take just over a year, and may inform subsequent work toward developing a national monitoring system – or registry – for sepsis. It will also inform a point of care alert system for sepsis and identify potential opportunities for trials of novel interventions.

Team

Co-Investigators

• Dr Rishma Maini, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine
• Dr Areti Manataki, Lecturer School of Computer Science
• Professor Colin McCowan, Professor in Health Data Science
• Dr Martin McKechnie, Clinical Lecturer, School of Medicine
• Dr Gregor McNeill, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
• Dr Michail Papathomas, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics
• Professor Deborah Williamson, Professor of Medicine, Dean of Medicine and Head of School

PPI representative

• Fay Richmond, Public contributor and member of Fife Community Advisory Council

Contact Us

If you have a question about the Improving Patient Care & Research on Sepsis Scotland (IPCReSS) or would like other information, please email us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.