Improving clinical temperature measurement
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- Understanding adverse drug events in ageing populations
- Improving clinical temperature measurement
- Investigating Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation Interventions in Financial Support Services
- Evaluating the Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic (MAGGIC) Heart Failure Risk Score
- Investigating the role of blood test trend for improved cancer detection using English primary care electronic health records data
- Dynamics of the GP Workforce: Analysing Labour Market Transitions and Policy Impacts in UK Primary Care
- Evolution of Primary Care Workforce: Analysing the Impact of ARRS and PCNs on Job Offerings in the UK (2019-2024)
- Technology Adoption and Evolution of Skill Requirements
- MRC ENTERPRISE STUDENTSHIP PROGRAMME 2025 - Developing a Comprehensive Framework for Clinical Validation of Generative AI in Primary Care: Beyond Performance Metrics
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Supervisors: Richard Stevens; Susannah Fleming
Research on the accuracy and predictive value of thermometry in use in the NHS and in homes, which could have important implications for childhood illness, for pandemic preparedness, and for those at risk of sepsis, including chemotherapy patients. The project will include opportunities to collaborate with world-leading thermometry experts at the UK National Physical Laboratory, and/or leading medical physicists in the UK National Body Temperature Measurement Group.
Preferred applicant background / skills: This is expected to be a quantitative project, although there may be scope for a mixed-methods approach, so experience of statistics and data analysis would be beneficial.
Supervisors
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Susannah Fleming
Senior Quantitative Researcher
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Richard Stevens
Professor of Medical Statistics