Wearables
Manchester Wearables Research Group
Mission: To enable the future use of wearable technology to improve patient outcomes founded on rigorous and applied clinical research.
About
The Manchester Wearables Research Group (also known as “the Wearables Lab”) is based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and we are proud to be a part of Clinical and Scientific Services. We cover a wide variety of clinical and care research related to wearable technology across Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) and the University of Manchester. The technologies we use range from smart watches and smart jewellery worn by patients and healthy populations, up to novel wireless patient monitoring systems approved for acute and intensive care.
MFT is one of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts, which puts us into a unique position of being able to offer access to a wide patient population across ten hospitals in the Greater Manchester region. This “single-centre, multi-hospital” approach means that we can conduct research under one legal entity and collect data via our unified Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system across the trust, which can be accessed via MFT’s Clinical Data Science Unit’s Trusted Research Environment.
Team
The Wearables Lab is co-led by Dr Anthony Wilson, Dr Gareth Kitchen, and Dr Lukas Hughes-Noehrer who work with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, digital matrons, and the Clinical Data Science Unit at MFT. We have established strong partnerships across the UK healthcare landscape as well as with industry and academia.
Contact us
Should you be interested in conducting research at the Wearables Lab or have a general enquiry about collaborations or our work, please get in touch:
We are always keen to widen our network and welcome new people to the group. To work with us, you do not have to be in current employment at MFT, but all arrangements and collaborations are subject to NHS policies and legal regulations.
For media enquiries, please contact: research.comms@mft.nhs.uk .
Research Fellows and Students
Dr Sophie Collinson
Rawan Alotaibi
Research outputs
Wilson, Anthony et al. (2024). The completeness, accuracy and impact on alerts, of wearable vital signs monitoring in hospitalised patients. Research Square (preprint). DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4976766/v1
O’Sullivan, Richard et al. (2024). Retrospective analysis of arterial blood pressure waveform data: how accurate are hourly recorded ICU vital signs? British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 133, Issue 2, 462-463
Bate S, Stokes V, Greenlee H, Goh KY, Whiting G, Kitchen G, Martin GP, Parker AJ, Wilson A. External Validation of Prognostic Models in Critical Care: A Cautionary Tale From COVID-19 Pneumonitis. Crit Care Explor. 2024 Mar 27;6(4):e1067. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000001067. PMID: 38549688; PMCID: PMC10977519.
Related news
https://research.cmft.nhs.uk/innovation-at-mft/manchester-clinical-data-science-unit
Links
Research profiles:
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/gareth.kitchen/
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/lukas.noehrer
Useful links:
https://research.cmft.nhs.uk/innovation-at-mft/manchester-clinical-data-science-unit
