BATCH Trial

BATCH is a trial using procalcitonin to guide duration of antibiotic treatment in children with bacterial infection. @LivUni & @CTRCardiffUni

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

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[Enitan Carrol 🇬🇲🇸🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @CarrolEnitan]

Big shout out to all the research nurses and data administrators at all sites, past and present. The research nurses tirelessly screen for eligible participants, consent, collect samples and collect data. Without them, none of this would be possible. Thank you!

[Enitan Carrol 🇬🇲🇸🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @CarrolEnitan]

Lead PIs @katrinacathie @doctorsanjay @SaulFaust @spaulus Jolanta Betnatoniene, Helen Nabwera
CTR: @Waldron_CA @emma_tj1 , Debbie Harris, Judith Evans, Philip Pallmann, @kerryhood , and many others

[Enitan Carrol 🇬🇲🇸🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @CarrolEnitan]

3/3 Thanks to @NIHRresearch for generous funding, to @Waldron_CA for keeping the show on the road,  @CTRCardiffUni for trial hosting, @NIHRCRN_nwcoast for support, and all the super Co-Is and PIs too many to name.

[Enitan Carrol 🇬🇲🇸🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @CarrolEnitan]

2/3 Now for  the important work of follow-up, data cleaning and analysis.  So exciting! 4+ years of hard work recruiting! What a team!

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

@CarrolEnitan @Waldron_CA It’s definitely a team effort and we are led by the best!

[Enitan Carrol 🇬🇲🇸🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @CarrolEnitan]

1/3 Well we did it! @BATCH_trial We opened first site @AHFTResearch 11/6/18,  and recruited our final and
1942 nd pt today at @UHSFT. 5 Secretaries of State for Health , 3 Prime Ministers, Brexit, and a pandemic,  but we still managed to reach target! Well done everyone!

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

We are delighted to say we have reached our target and have completed recruitment! Thank you to our wonderful sites for their support and continued efforts. We couldn’t have done it without you! @CTRCardiffUni @CarrolEnitan

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

Congratulations and thank you to @RDsouthampton @southamptonCRF @SotonChildHosp for recruiting their 500th participant on Monday!🥳

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

Congratulations and thank you to @UHDBTrust for being able to support BATCH again and restarting recruitment after the pandemic pause, with the first participant recruited today 🥳 @DerbyRandD @worldzico @MelHG02 @CarrolEnitan

[Jenny Preston (Mrs D’Arcy in personal life) @jen_preston1]

I have had the pleasure of working with young people to create a performance about some of the causes of #AntibioticResistance now turned into an animation https://t.co/5K8LYb9nmV with educational resources for key stage 2 https://t.co/8nvCHxunDT

[CTRCardiffUni @CTRCardiffUni]

Watch a new co-produced animation (with lesson plan & resources) developed with young people in the ‘Raising Antibiotic AwarenesS thrOugh Drama in children and Young People' (RApSODY)

https://t.co/R4YxmseIny

@jen_preston1
@CarrolEnitan
@AttitudePAS
@LiverpoolGenR1
@kerryhood

[Jenny Preston (Mrs D’Arcy in personal life) @jen_preston1]

It gives me great pleasure to share our short co-produced animation about antibiotic resistance with lesson plan and resources https://t.co/8nvCHxunDT @AttitudePAS @BATCH_trial @LiverpoolGenR1 #AntibioticResistance #antibiotics @NIHRinvolvement

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

@CTRCardiffUni @LivUni_IVES @AHFTResearch @NIHRCRN_nwcoast @NIHRCRF_Lpool

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

On #IWD2022 we'd like to say huge congratulations to @CarrolEnitan for her NIHR Senior Investigator Award recognising those who make an outstanding contribution to research. Thank you for being an inspirational leader & awesome Chief Investigator on @BATCH_trial & @PRECISE_study

[NIHR Research Delivery Network @NIHRrdn]

NIHR Senior Investigator Awards recognise those that make a real difference to research in this country. Super proud to see our Clinical Director @CarrolEnitan make the list today: https://t.co/DMX9PKRPNM Congratulations Enitan 👏👏@livuninews @AHFTResearch @livUni_IVES @AlderHey

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

@CarrolEnitan @NIHRCRN_nwcoast @DetectStudy @PRECISE_study @PEACH_Study1 @CTRCardiffUni Amazing news! Congratulations Enitan!🥂

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

Congratulations to @OUHospitals @OUH_Research for recruiting their 200th participant into BATCH! ⭐️

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

@bernatoniene

[BATCH Trial @BATCH_trial]

Thanks @uhbwNHS for recruiting our 1700th participant last week! 🥳

[PRONTO Trial @Pronto_Trial]

We have a portfolio of trials at @CTRCardiffUni that address the problem of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. @Pronto_Trial @BATCH_trial @PEACH_Study1. The stats truly are sobering!

Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Europe 2022 - 2020 data https://t.co/JlINRux0j9

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@Dr_JoanneEuden @CarrolEnitan @Pronto_Trial @PEACH_Study1 I submitted a spirit checklist for BATCH but it still went to peer-review.