Matthew Thompson
Recent Publications
- Thompson Mathew J, Harnden Anthony, Perera Rafael, Mayon-White Dick, Smith Lindsay, McLeod Diane, and Mant David (2008) Deriving temperature and age appropriate heart rate centiles for children with acute infections ADC Online.
- Harnden Anthony, Ninis Nelly, Thompson Matthew, Perera Rafael, Levin Michael, Mant David, and Mayon-White Richard (2006) Parenteral penicillin for children with meningococcal disease before hospital admission: case-control study. BMJ, 332(7553):1295-8.
- Thompson Matthew J, Ninis Nelly, Perera Rafael, Mayon-White Richard, Phillips Claire, Bailey Linda, Harnden Anthony, Mant David, and Levin Michael (2006) Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease in children and adolescents. Lancet, 367(9508):397-403.
| matthew.thompson@dphpc.ox.ac.uk | |
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| Department | Department of Primary Health Care |
Matthew Thompson
Matthew is a General Practitioner who has trained and worked in both the United Kingdom and the USA. He is currently a Senior Clinical Scientist in the Department, and also works as a family doctor in Oxford.
He is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis (MaDOx) which is a research programme of primary and secondary research into more effective ways of monitoring chronic conditions and making diagnoses in primary care settings. His research is primarily in the field of diagnosis, this includes research on diagnosing serious illness in children in primary care, better ways of using diagnostic technologies, and prediction rules in primary care. He also coordinates the ERNIE group, which is a collaborative research study between the Universities of Oxford, Leicester, Leuven (Belgium), Maastricht, and Rotterdam (NL). The ERNIE research is examining earlier ways of recognising serious illness in children in primary care and emergency department settings. His other research interests include systematic reviews of therapies and diagnostics, and is involved in the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections group. Matthew also participates in the clinical teaching of medical students, and evidence based medicine as part of the MSc in EBM as well as the postgraduate courses of the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.
