Selected Publications

• Blacklock C, Mayon-White R, Coad N, and Thompson M (2011) Which symptoms and clinical features correctly identify serious respiratory infection in children attending a paediatric assessment unit? Arch Dis Child, 96(8):708-14.

• Brent A J, Lakhanpaul M, Ninis N, Levin M, Macfaul R, and Thompson M (2011) Evaluation of temperature-pulse centile charts in identifying serious bacterial illness: observational cohort study. Arch Dis Child.

• Brent A J, Lakhanpaul M, Thompson M, Collier J, Ray S, Ninis N, Levin M, and Macfaul R (2011) Risk score to stratify children with suspected serious bacterial infection: observational cohort study. Arch Dis Child.

• Fleming Susannah, Thompson Matthew, Stevens Richard, Heneghan Carl, Pluddemann Annette, Maconochie Ian, Tarassenko Lionel, and Mant David (2011) Normal ranges of heart rate and respiratory rate in children from birth to 18 years of age: a systematic review of observational studies. Lancet, 377(9770):1011-8.

• Haj-Hassan Tanya A, Thompson Matthew J, Mayon-White Richard T, Ninis Nelly, Harnden Anthony, Smith Lindsay F, Perera Rafael, and Mant David C (2011) Which early 'red flag' symptoms identify children with meningococcal disease in primary care? Br J Gen Pract, 61(584):97-104.

Dr Matthew Thompson

Matthew has extensive experience in primary care research, particularly in the areas of infectious disease, paediatrics, and diagnostics. He is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis, a nationally-funded initiative at improving diagnostic strategies used for a variety of acute and chronic conditions in primary care, and coordinates a European initiative to improve recognition of serious infection in children in emergency departments and primary care. 

Other ongoing research studies include systematic reviews of diagnostics and interventions in primary care, observational studies of children and adults with acute infections, and use of new diagnostic and point of care technologies. He also co-ordinates 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.

Dr Thompson has over 60 scientific publications, and as Principal Investigator or co-applicant has been awarded funding from the National Institute of Health Research, the Health Technology Assessment Programme, and the Meningitis Research Foundation. He is an Editorial Advisor to the British Medical Journal, an Editor for the Acute Respiratory Infection Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, and Associate Editor of Family Practice. He also enjoys teaching students and clinicians within the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.