Acute Care Research

Acute care is any unplanned healthcare contact or escalation in hospital healthcare requirements. It includes not only front door medicine and surgery, but peri and post-operative and critical care for adults and children.

Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre is an internationally unique, multi-disciplinary and integrated collaborative group of healthcare professionals, clinical academics, scientists and researchers with a shared mission to improve outcomes for the high number of patients seeking acute care.

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Availability of consultants is not the cause of the so-called 'weekend effect' in hospitals, major study finds

02 August 2021

A major study led by the University of Birmingham has revealed that a lack of available specialist consultants in hospitals at the weekend is not the cause of the so-called 'weekend effect'.

New study on paediatric intensive care paves the way for improving care for critically ill children

14 May 2021

A study collaborating with the University of Birmingham has identified factors that increase the likelihood of critically ill children needing life-saving CPR.

Funding boost to research multi-morbidity in hospital patients

11 February 2021

Scientists have been given almost £4m to improve understanding of multi-morbidity in hospital patients.