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Exploiting electronic health records to improve infection management

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The main goal of effective infection management is to prescribe antimicrobials with an appropriate spectrum to combat the infecting pathogen and with dosing regimens that are optimally adjusted to the patient’s characteristics to ensure efficacy. This first requires identifying the causative organism(s) and their antimicrobial susceptibilities to target therapy. However, this may be delayed due to the time taken to obtain culture results and then susceptibilities, or inconclusive if cultur...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Oxford college:
Green Templeton College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-0412-8509
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Big Data Institute
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0001-5095-6367
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Role:
Supervisor


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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/0187kwz08
Funding agency for:
Eyre, DW
Pouwels, KB
Walker, AS
Grant:
NIHR200915
Programme:
Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU)
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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/04atp4p48
Funding agency for:
Gu, Q
Programme:
China Scholarship Council - Nuffield Department of Medicine Scholarships


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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford


Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2025-03-31

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