Barts Endocarditis Research Registry v1.1
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
342507
Contact name
Simon Woldman
Contact email
Research summary
Barts Endocarditis Research Registry
REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/LO/0595
Date of REC Opinion
26 Sep 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The data will be held on a server within Barts Health NHS Trust. The software platform will be IWEB (supplied by Dendrite Clinical Systems). The server is protected by the Barts firewall and also requires a username and password to access. This software is used to create databases for audit purposes for many cardiac and cardiothoracic services including national audits (i.e. MINAP) and is robust and approved by the Barts Hospital ICT team.
Data will be entered by the Endocarditis Research Nurse funded by the Barts Charity. Each patient will be deidentified by giving them a unique number (distinct from the Hospital Medical Records Number (MRN) and the NHS Number). The unique number will be matched to the MRN on a separate database and any analysis will be done on the anonymised data.
Only the Endocarditis team will have access to the data and any analysis will require approval of the endocarditis research group. Occasionally the data may be requested by external collaborators in other universities or hospitals. If the data is to be used in this way the Endocarditis Research Group will have to give its approval and of course only the anonymised data will be released.Research programme
The Infective Endocarditis Team is comprised of different experts including the following, whose research endeavours can be supported by the database: 1. Cardiologists 2. Cardiothoracic Surgeons 3. Microbiologists 4. Pharmacists 5. Approved external collaborators like other hospitals or universities
Research database title
Barts Endocarditis Research Registry
Establishment organisation
BartsHealth NHS Trust
Establishment organisation address
St Bartholomew's Hospital
West Smithfield London
EC1A 7BE