奥利维亚巴恩斯is a Senior Research Nurse at Sherbourne Medical Centre in Leamington Spa. In this series of weekly posts she discusses how COVID-19 is impacting the clinical trials she is working on, as well as her work on studies in response to the virus.Read previous entries here。
我想从本周开始两个积极的。Firstly, with the daily government briefings, research gets mentioned almost every day, so I really hope it will put it more to the forefront of people’s minds and in the future if there is research in other areas, hopefully they will be more agreeable to take part.
Secondly, from a general practice point of view, I think more GPs might sign up to theRoyal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre。当COVID-19研究所有开始回答e a lot of GPs who were interested in doing them, but they had to be a member of the RCGP Research and Surveillance Centre. The real positive is not only that there is an opportunity to take part in these studies, but also sites that take part in research, their databases are cleaner because they have to be if doing research - you have to code properly, without free text – and that is to everybody’s benefit.
Study updates
我们被告知研究可能很快重启，但尚未开始。但是，我们在建筑物的一项研究中患者了。He’s been in the study for a year and there were a lot of bloods to be taken, so from a study point of view, it was in the patient’s interest to come in. We asked if he would be willing to come to the practice and he was, but if the patient hadn’t of been happy, we would obviously have done the visit over the phone. The study team had made allowances and the advice was that if we could get the patient back in within a month of the planned visit to do the bloods, that would still be acceptable.
我们必须看到他穿着全PPE，然后之后有很多清洁。In the past we had a dedicated research room with everything we needed, whereas now we’re only using two rooms to see patients in. So I have to do a bit more planning to make sure I take all my research equipment I need down to the room with me, so that once we were in, we didn’t have to come in and out. It is a very different way of working, but we have two more patients coming in next week and I’m going to ask them how they feel about being in a study during COVID-19.
通过我们的Covid-19研究，我们正在继续血清学研究，我们现在有130人参与其中，我刚刚订购了更多的套件。我们参与的抗疟疾治疗研究已被抗生素阿奇霉素所取代。它仍然是所有测试患者的两臂学习，但现在50％将获得氮霉素而不是抗疟疾药物。
However, the other COVID-19 studies have been very quiet, with no new recruits. It is obviously great that there are far fewer cases of COVID-19 now, but from a research point of view I don’t know if they have enough numbers or not to be viable. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if something could have been set up with the 111 service that may have worked better to direct patients to us, but they were so inundated with calls.
