Since 2012, CORU has had one to two researchers embedded with the critical care teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). This has involved researchers spending between one to three days a week sitting with the team at GOSH, flexibly responding to the needs of the team. This includes:

  • supporting doctors and nurses in their research projects (project design, analysis, write up and applying for grant funding);
  • leading new research projects responding to local clinical needs;
  • building capacity within the GOSH critical care units for planning and carrying out research to support the delivery of intensive care.
Overall demand for retrieval graph

Selected publications:

  • Pagel, Banks, Pope, Whitmore, Brown, Goldman, Utley, “Development, implementation and evaluation of a tool for forecasting short term demand for beds in an intensive care unit”, Operations Research for Health Care, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orhc.2017.08.003 , 2017
  • Ray, Rogers, Pagel, Raman, Peters, Ramnarayan, “Pao2/Fio2 Ratio Derived From the Spo2/Fio2 Ratio to Improve Mortality Prediction Using the Pediatric Index of Mortality-3 Score in Transported Intensive Care Admissions”, Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001075, 2017
  • Chapman, Wray, Oulton, Pagel, Ray, Peters, “’The Score Matters’: Variability in Performance of Early Warning Systems”, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312136, 2017
  • Chapman, Wray, Oulton, Pagel, Ray, Peters, “Evidence-based vital signs do not improve predicted performance of effective paediatric track and trigger systems”, European Journal of Pediatrics 175(11):1573-1573, 2016
  • Pagel, Lutman, Polke, Ray, Ramnarayan, “Evaluating the impact of additional clinical resources to manage the winter surge in demand for emergency paediatric intensive care retrieval”, British Journal of Healthcare Management 22:7, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2016.22.7.370,2016
  • Pagel, Ramnarayan, Ray, Peters, “Development and implementation of a real time statistical control method to identify the start and end of the winter surge in demand for paediatric intensive care”, European Journal of Operational Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.08.023, 2016
  • Pagel, Ramnarayan, Ray, Peters, “A novel method to identify the start and end of the winter surge in demand for pediatric intensive care in real time”, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 16(9):821-7, 2015
  • Marshall, Pagel, French, Utley, Allwood, Fulop, Pope, Goldman, Banks, “Moving improvement research closer to practice: developing the Researcher-in-Residence model”, BMJ Quality & Safety, doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002779, 2014