Miss Ugochi Nwulu BSc, MPH

Honorary Research Associate

Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 371 4205

Email u.nwulu@bham.ac.uk

Office 17, 1st Floor Education Centre
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2WB

About

Gochi is a Senior Research Associate who works in Theme 9, part of the Birmingham and Black Country Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (BBC-CLAHRC) and funded by the National Institute for Health Research.

Qualifications

  • MPH, University of Birmingham, 2010
  • BSc, University of London, 2000

Biography

Gochi joined Professor Richard Lilford’s research group at the University of Birmingham in November 2006. She worked in the team coordinating a mixed methods evaluation of 2 complex patient safety interventions within UK hospitals - the evaluation of The Safer Patients Initiative, funded by the Health Foundation.

Gochi has been project managing BBC-Theme 9 since July 2010. The work of this theme is to evaluate the effectiveness of specific enhancements to a well established e-prescribing system at improving patient safety and quality on the wards of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS trust according pre-specified subthemes. The subthemes are: Infection control / Recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient using an electronic observation form / Reducing prescription errors of omission and commission / Reducing inappropriate and promoting appropriate investigations / Bar-coding - ensuring that investigations and prescriptions are given to the right patient.

Teaching

Research

  • Evaluating patient safety implementations
  • Health services evaluation and audit
  • Care processes that improve recognition of and response to the acutely deteriorating patient.

PhD outline: The impact of computerised vital signs charting on the detection of deteriorating ward patients in a university teaching hospital.

Publications

Benning A, Ghaleb M, Suokas A, Dixon-Woods M, Dawson JF, Barber N, Dean Franklin B, Girling A, Hemming K, Carmalt M, Rudge G, Naicker T, Nwulu U, Choudhury S, Lilford R. (2011) Large scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals: mixed method evaluation. British Medical Journal, 2011 Feb 3;342:d195

Benning A, Dixon-Woods M, Nwulu U, Ghaleb M, Dawson JF, Barber N, Dean Franklin B, Girling A, Hemming K, Carmalt M, Rudge G, Naicker T, Kotecha A, M Clare Derrington, Lilford R. Multiple component patient safety intervention in English hospitals: controlled evaluation of second phase. British Medical Journal, 2011 Feb 3;342:d199

Nwengya NB, Nwulu G, Westwood D, Hodson J and Coleman JJ. Addressing patient safety through clinical decision support and a business intelligence system. in Albolino et al (eds.), Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 321 - 325.

Coleman JJ, Nwulu U, Ferner RE. Decision support for sensible dosing in electronic prescribing systems. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2011.01310.x

Nwulu U, Westwood D, Edwards D, Kelliher F and Coleman JJ. Adoption of an electronic observation chart with an integrated early warning scoring system on pilot wards: a descriptive report. Computers Informatics and Nursing. 2012. DOI: 10.1097/NXN.0b013e31825-1074a

Nwulu U, Nirantharakumar K, Odesanya R, McDowell SE and Coleman JJ. Improvement in the detection of adverse drug events by the use of electronic health and prescription records: an evaluation of two trigger tools. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2012. DOI 10.1007/s00228-012-1327-1

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