Professor Steve Goodacre

MB, ChB, MRCP, DipIMC, FRCEM, MSc, PhD

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator

Chair, NIHR Clinical Trials Unit Standing Advisory Committee

Senior Associate Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine

Steve Goodacre
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s.goodacre@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0842

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Professor Steve Goodacre
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
3023
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

I am a clinical academic in emergency medicine and researcher in emergency care.

Research interests

My research interests include organisation of emergency care, economic analysis, clinical trials, and clinical risk prediction in emergency care.

Current and recent projects:

  • The VTEAM study: Venous Thromboembolism risk Assessment Models for hospital inpatients. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £548,794, June 2019 to May 2021.
  • The PHEWS study: Pre-Hospital Early Warning for Sepsis. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £561,164, June 2019 to May 2021.
  • SPQR: Safety for Patients through Quality Review. Funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme, £551,743, June 2027 to May 2020.
  • The TiLLI study: Thromboprophylaxis for lower limb immobilisation. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £181,690, April 2017 to May 2018.
  • The PRIEST study: Pandemic Respiratory Infection Emergency System Triage. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £795,348, August 2012 to March 2021.

Co-investigator

  • BE SURE: Building an understanding of Ethnic minority people's Service Use Relating to Emergency care for injuries, funded by NIHR Health Service & Delivery, £729,226 (Swansea University), October 2021 to October 2023
  • ASPIRED: RCT of immediate enhanced ambulatory ECG monitoring versus standard monitoring in acute unexplained syncope, funded by the British Heart Foundation, £1,303,649 (Edinburgh Royal Infirmary), August 2021 to July 2025
  • PRIEST (Pandemic Respiratory Infection Emergency System Triage) study for low resource settings, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, £98,723, July 2021 to June 2022
  • Pre-alerts: Exploring the use of pre-hospital pre-alerts and their impact on patients, Ambulance Service and Emergency Department staff, funded by NIHR Health Service & Delivery Research, £555,705, April 2021 to August 2023
  • IPEP: Development of a clinical decision aid for the differential diagnosis of transient loss of consciousness, funded by NIHR Research for Patient Benefit , £145,355, March 2021 to October 2022
  • VTEP: Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for women during pregnancy and after delivery, funded by NIHR Health Technology Assessment, £189,896, January 2021 to March 2022
  • TARGET-CTCA: Troponin in Acute chest pain to Risk stratify and Guide EffecTive use of Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography. Funded by the British Heart Foundation, £1,115,723, August 2018 to July 2023.
  • TIME: Take home naloxone Intervention Multi centre Emergency setting feasibility trial. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £563,734, January 2018 to June 2020.
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Early Diagnostic and Disposition Strategies for Suspected ACS. Funded by the US National Institute for Health, $3,132,749, August 2017 to May 2021.
  • The RAPID-CTCA trial: Rapid Assessment of Potential Ischaemic Heart Disease with CT coronary angiography. Chief Investigator Alasdair Gray (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh). Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment R&D Programme, £2,058,508, January 2015 to December 2019.
Publications

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Reports

Posters

  • Harthi N, Goodacre S, Sampson FC & Alharbi R (2022) PP15 Research priorities for prehospital care of older patients with injuries: scoping review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodacre S (2014) PRE-HOSPITAL NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION FOR ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NETWORK META ANALYSIS. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S, Pandor A, Fitzgerald P & Goodacre S (2010) Clinical Decision Rules for children with minor head injury: A systematic review. European Society of Emergency Medicine,(EuSEM) Stockholm. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S, Pandor A & Goodacre S A systematic review of Clinical Decision Rules in the management of adult minor head injury. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S & Goodacre S Diagnostic accuracy of individual characteristics following minor head injury in children: A systematic review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodacre S & Pickering A Management of isolated minor head injury in the United Kingdom. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carroll C, Goodacre S, Stevens J & Leaviss J Diagnostic accuracy of early biomarkers for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (2012). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pandor A, Harnan S, Goodacre S, Pickering A, Fitzgerald P & Rees A Diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pandor A, Harnan S, Goodacre S, Pickering A & Rees A Diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Leaviss J, Stevens J, J W, Goodacre S & F M Prognostic accuracy of Exercise ECG and CT Coronary Angiography to predict Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) in patients with suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS): A systematic review (2012). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Fitzgerald P, Harnan S, Pandor A & Goodacre S The role of biochemical markers in the identification of intracranial pathology following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harnan S, Pickering A, Pandor A & Goodacre S Clinical decision rules for adults with minor head injury: a systematic review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S, Pandor A & Goodacre S Clinical Decision Rules for children with minor head injury: A systematic review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodacre S, Pandor A, Poku E, Stevens JW, Ren S & Cantrell A Pre-hospital non-invasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. 999 EMS Research Forum Conference. RIS download Bibtex download

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Teaching interests

My teaching interests are critical appraisal of the scientific literature, promoting evidence-based health care, advanced trauma life support (ATLS) and diagnostic pathways in emergency medicine.

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.