NITCAR Publications

Here is a list of publications that have come out of NITCAR projects. For further details about each study, see the “Projects” tab on the top menu.

If you have any ideas for a project within infection which would benefit from national collaboration, and want some advice on refining ideas, setting it up or help with publication, then get in touch – we would love to hear from you!

IONOE

Preliminary evidence supporting use of UK consensus definitions for necrotising otitis externa, Clinical Infection in Practice, November 2024

UK consensus definitions for necrotising otitis externa: a Delphi study, BMJ Open, February 2023

Systematic review of the diagnosis and management of necrotising otitis externa: Highlighting the need for high-quality research, Clinical Otolaryngology, February 2023

NAMM

Clinical management of community-acquired meningitis in adults in the UK and Ireland in 2017: a retrospective cohort study on behalf of the National Infection Trainees Collaborative for Audit and Research (NITCAR), BMJ Open, July 2022

NVO

A retrospective cohort study of bacterial native vertebral osteomyelitis and
its management in the UK, Clinical Infection in Practice, June 2021

CABI

Development and internal validation of clinical prediction models for outcomes of complicated intra-abdominal infection, British Journal of Surgery, April 2021

HOODINI

Cross-sectional study of the prevalence, causes and management of hospital-onset diarrhoea Journal of Hospital Infection, May 2019