Professor Steve Goodacre MB, ChB, MRCP, DipIMC, FCEM, MSc, PhD
Address:
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4DA
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0842
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 0749
Email: s.goodacre@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 3023
Biography
I trained as an Emergency Physician in Leicester and Leeds, completing my specialist medical training in 1998. I then moved to Sheffield to train in Health Services Research, completing a Masters degree in 2000 and PhD in 2003. I was promoted to personal chair in 2007.
Research Interests
My research interests are clinical trials in emergency medicine, economic analysis, the organisation of emergency care and methods for evaluating the quality of emergency care.
Teaching Interests
My teaching interests are critical appraisal of the scientific literature, promoting evidence-based health care, advanced trauma life support (ATLS) and diagnosis of acute chest pain and deep vein thrombosis.
I am interested in supervising students undertaking research in emergency care, such as evaluation of health technologies, changes to service delivery, methods to improve decision-making and methods for evaluating the quality of emergency care.
I co-ordinate the Promoting Evidence Based Health Care optional module on the Master in Public Health and Master in Clinical Research courses.
Professional activities
Deputy Editor, the Emergency Medicine Journal
Consulting Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine
Editorial Consultant for the American College of Physicians "Physicians' Information and Education Resource (PIER)" - DVT module
Member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board
Chair, ScHARR Research Committee
Current and Recent Projects
Chief Investigator
The 3Mg Trial: A randomised controlled trial of nebulised versus IV magnesium sulphate versus placebo for acute severe asthma. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £1,727,163.
DAVROS: Development and Validation of Risk-adjusted Outcomes for Systems of emergency care. Funded by the Medical Research Council, £951,554.
Diagnostic strategies for suspected acute coronary syndrome. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £176,928.
Emergency Planning in Health Care: Scoping study of the international literature, local information resources and key stakeholders. Funded by the NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation R&D Programme, £152,304.
The RATPAC Trial: Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers
Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £795,042.
The cost-effectiveness of investigation and hospital admission for minor (GCS 13-15) head injury
Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £183,957.
The PAINTED study: Pandemic Influenza Triage in the Emergency Department. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £151,174.
Co-investigator
Predictors of preventable unplanned admission rates. Chief Investigator Alicia O'Cathain. Funded by NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation, £278,997.
Developing outcome measures for prehospital care. Chief Investigator Janette Turner. Funded by NIHR Programme Grant, £1,286,660.
The AHEAD Study: Managing anticoagulated patients who suffer head injury. Chief Investigator Suzanne Mason. Funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme, £248,550.
Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery (HITS-NS). Chief Investigator Fiona Lecky (University of Manchester). Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £539,573.
Can an ‘accelerated pathway’ reduce admissions for chest pain in New Zealand? Chief Investigator Martin Than (Christcurch Hospital, New Zealand). Funded by Research for New Zealand Health Delivery, NZ$899,710.
RATPAC Contemporary Biomarker Evaluation. Chief Investigator Paul Collinson (St George's Hospital). Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £243,482.
Key Publications
Goodacre S, 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 2011;97:190-196.
Arnold J, Goodacre S, Bath P, Price J. Randomised controlled trial of information sheets for patients with acute chest pain. BMJ 2009;338:b541.
Gray A, Goodacre S, Newby D, Masson M, Sampson F, Nicholl J on behalf of the 3CPO triallists. Effectiveness of non invasive ventilation in patients with acute severe cardiogenic pulmonary oedema. New Engl J Med 2008;359:142-51.
Goodacre S, Cross E, Lewis C, Nicholl J & Capewell S, on behalf of the ESCAPE Research Team. The ESCAPE cluster randomised trial: Effectiveness and Safety of Chest pain Assessment to Prevent Emergency admissions. BMJ 2007;335:659-662.
Goodacre S, Sutton AJ and Sampson F. The value of clinical assessment in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis: a meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 2005;143:129-139.
Goodacre S, Nicholl J, Dixon S, Cross E, Angelini K, Arnold J, Revill S, Locker T, Capewell S, Quinney D, Campbell S & Morris F. Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a chest pain observation unit compared with routine care. BMJ 2004;328:254-7.