PWID 1

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Comparison of physiological and metabolic responses to blood stream infection in People Who Inject Drugs (PWID’s) and non PWID; a retrospective case series

• IRAS ID

  305642

• Contact name

  Patrick Lillie

• Contact email

  p.lillie1@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  Hull Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 4 months, 21 days

• Research summary

  Bacterial infections in People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) can cause severe disease and high levels of hospital admission. Anecdotal and some evidence from heart valve infection indicates that this group may respond differently to infection than non PWID. This retrospective note review hopes to clarify if there are differences in how the groups differ in severity for infection with the same bacteria matched for a surrogate marker of amount of infective burden

• REC name

  Wales REC 1

• REC reference

  21/WA/0329

• Date of REC Opinion

  8 Oct 2021

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion