Susannah Fleming

My research is focussed on monitoring and diagnosis, particularly using "vital signs" such as heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen levels, temperature, blood pressure, and capillary refill time.  I have particular interest in temperature monitoring, and am a member of the National Body Temperature Measurement Group. I am interested in the accuracy of monitoring technology used by both clinicians and patients.

Teaching

I teach on the MSc in EBHC Medical Statistics, and co-ordinate the module in Essential Medical Statistics. I also teach medical statistics on the undergraduate medical course.

MSc Supervision

I am particularly keen to supervise students considering research on monitoring and diagnosis.  I have particular experience in systematic reviewing and meta-analysis, observational research, and diagnostic accuracy studies, and so would welcome students considering any of these methodologies.  

Links to resources:

Evidence-based centiles for heart rate and breathing rate in children (Fleming S. et al, (2011), Lancet, 377, 1011 - 1018)

• Centile web application
• Centile charts poster - apologies.  These resources are currently unavailable.  Please email me for access in the meantime while we work on getting them back up again.
• Raw centile data and associated software code

"Dumbell" pre- and post-test probability plots

• R code to create dumbell plots