Liz Cross BA, MA
Research Associate
Clinical Trials Research Unit
Health Services Research
School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street,
Sheffield, S1 4DA
Tel:+44 (0)114 222 0762
Fax:+44 (0)114 222 0749
email : e.a.cross@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I have over 10 years of health services research experience, mainly managing trials in emergency care.
I am currently Trial Manager on SABRE, a randomised controlled trial of infants admitted with acute bronchiolitis.
Research interests
My research interests include recruiting for randomised controlled trials in emergency care settings
Current projects
Title: SABRE (hypertonic Saline in Acute Bronchiolitis RCT and Economic evaluation). Funder: NIHR HTA £871,189. Chief Investigator: Mark Everard
Key publications
- Goodacre SW, Bradburn M, Cross E, Collinson P, Gray A, Hall AS on behalf of the RATPAC Research Team. The Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac Markers (RATPAC) trial: a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department. Heart doi:10.1136/hrt.2010.203166. Online at http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2010/09/30/hrt.2010.203166.full
- Fitzgerald P, Goodacre S, Cross E, Dixon S. Cost-effectiveness of point-of-care biomarker assessment for suspected myocardial infarction: The RATPAC Trial (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers). Academic Emergency Medicine. In Press.
- Cross E, Goodacre S. Patient satisfaction with chest pain unit care: findings from the Effectiveness and Safety of Chest Pain Assessment to Prevent Emergency Admissions (ESCAPE) cluster randomised trial. EMJ 2010;27:774-778 Published Online First: 20 July 2010 doi:10.1136/emj.2009.086298
- Goodacre S, Cross E, Lewis C, Nicholl J, Capewell S. Effectiveness & safety of chest pain assessment to prevent emergency admission: ESCAPE cluster randomised trial. BMJ 2007;335:659.
- Arnold J, Goodacre S, Morris F and on behalf of the ESCAPE research team. Structure, process and outcomes of chest pain units established in the ESCAPE trial. EMJ 2007;24:462-466.
- Cross E, How S, Goodacre S. Development of acute chest pain services in the United Kingdom.
Emerg Med J 2007; 24:100-102. - Cross E, Goodacre S, O’Cathain A, Arnold J. Rationing in the Emergency Department: the good, the bad and the unacceptable. Emerg Med J Mar 2005; 22: 171 – 176.