STH Respiratory Medicine Research Database
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
218813
Contact name
David Fishwick
Contact email
Research summary
STH Respiratory Medicine Research Database
REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/NW/0007
Date of REC Opinion
28 Feb 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The Respiratory Physiology Department at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals currently operates an electronic clinical database, hosted by the Medical Physics department and managed to maximise patient confidentiality within the secure confines of STH NHS Foundation Trust. The database is used to enter data including demographics, physiology results, and diagnosis following clinical assessment.
We intend to develop the database to collect information from patients who prospectively provide written consent to some of their data being held, with a view to that data potentially being used in research, or for those patients to be contacted about future studies. Consent forms will be stored in the STH Respiratory Respiratory Physiology Department. Data will be handled and stored according to local and national governance procedures.
Data collected will include:
1. Basic Demographics
2. Standard Physiological and respiratory measurements
3. Radiology results applicable to research
4. Occupational history
5. Diagnostic code, entered by clinician responsible for patient.The database will be used to identify efficiently and comprehensively patients eligible for a specific healthcare intervention in order to help recruitment into trials, and for using routine clinical data to study the course of disease and effectiveness of healthcare used in daily Respiratory Medicine practice.
Research programme
The respiratory medicine directorate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is a large, research and clinically active directorate with a very significant outpatient and inpatient activity. STH is the only secondary care adult facility in Sheffield for further respiratory assessment, and has a broad and deep range of respiratory specialties. For example, STH offers sleep services, interstitial lung disease services, occupational lung disease services, lung cancer assessment and treatment and pulmonary vascular services. Each of these sub specialty areas is highly research active. This work will allow STH to better understand how to make accurate measures of breathing in a wide variety of patients. In addition, it will help doctors and nurses understand better how workers develop lung diseases at work due to inhaled harmful substances. Finally, good access to consenting patients with various respiratory disorders is one of the important steps identified by the local CLRN respiratory priority group when recruiting to clinical and other trials, and consequently access to the proposed Research Database is deemed important to allow further development of appropriate research trials, and for recruitment of patients into these trials.
Research database title
STH Respiratory Medicine Research Database
Establishment organisation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Establishment organisation address
8 Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2SB