Determining Covid-19 Risk After Attending Hospital Appointments [COVID-19]
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Determining the Risk of Developing Symptomatic COVID-19 Infection After Attending Hospital Outpatient Clinic appointments
IRAS ID
288013
Contact name
Nikos Evangelou
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals, NHS Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
NCT04544176, ClinicalTrials.Gov
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 11 days
Research summary
Since March 2020, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused considerable disruption to the provision of routine healthcare in the UK. A key priority for healthcare providers as we gain control of COVID-19, is to restart the provision of urgent non-COVID care. There are several barriers including a reluctance for people to attend hospital appointments for fears of contracting COVID-19.
We plan to use recent data on hospital attendance and COVID-19 laboratory tests, available within our local NHS trust in Nottingham to calculate the risk of developing COVID-19 infection after attending an outpatient hospital appointment. We will calculate the incidence of infection in approximately 110,000 patients at Nottingham to calculate the risk of infection within 28 days of attending outpatients appointments. We will use data on patients who attended the hospitals in 2019 to act as controls.
Our team consisting of clinicians, data analysts, epidemiologist and clinical researchers will analyse this anonymised data to quantify the risk of infection which will help inform the recovery plans and service provision during the restart of urgent and routine non-COVID care.
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