NEAT: Neonatal database

  • Research type

    Research Database

  • IRAS ID

    292263

  • Contact name

    Dulip S JAYASINGHE

  • Contact email

    dulip.jayasinghe@nuh.nhs.uk

  • Research summary

    NEAT: NEonATal Database - A population based comprehensive neonatal intensive care database.

  • REC name

    South Central - Berkshire Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    22/SC/0337

  • Date of REC Opinion

    27 Sep 2022

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion

  • Data collection arrangements

    The NEAT database will house patient-, disease- and treatment- specific data for patients who have been admitted to the NICU in NUH and, once established, contributing NHS Trusts. Data will be stored using a secure web based TRE.
    Our definitive database can collect new indices as they are reported in the literature, as well as report outcomes for specific patient groups, diseases and therapies, significantly enhancing the quality of data available for clinical research.
    The data collected from electronic databases (Badger, Medway, NOTIS), medical devices (ventilators, echocardiograph) and paper nursing observation charts by the routine clinical team. The identifiable data will then be pseudonymised by NUH Digital services and inserted into a bespoke TRE hosted by University of Nottingham. Access will be granted to only the pseudonymised data relevant to individual member of the research team; universal access to all data will not be granted to all members of the NEAT group.

  • Research programme

    To address important clinical questions in health outcomes of NICU graduates which can only be adequately addressed by large population databases with associated physiological observations, medical device recordings and investigational results. Stoma for necrotising enterocolitis (NEC): We aim to see how many babies have a stoma and look at factors which influenced weight gain and discharge time in order to identify better ways to look after these babies (SW). Investigating risk factors and health and hearing outcomes for babies admitted to the NICU (DJ, SKT, KM and PTK) Effect of temperature regulation on outcome measures (DJ) Factors which affect the morbidity and mortality of pre-term and term babies admitted to the NICU (DB).

  • Research database title

    NEAT: NEonATal Database - A population based comprehensive neonatal intensive care database.

  • Establishment organisation

    Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust

  • Establishment organisation address

    Nottigham University Hospitals NHS Trust headquarters

    Hucknall road

    Nottingham

    NG5 1PB