Aims and objectives
- to improve rapid diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases with focus on both common and rare infections
- to reduce use of broad spectrum antibiotics
- to improve diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases in patients with co-morbidity and secondary immunosuppression
- to participate in national and international research projects with focus on pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV, viral hepatitis, CNS infections and infections in the immunocompromised host
Focus areas:
- Infectious diseases caused by bacteria, virus, parasites and fungi.
- Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
- Pneumonia: OptiCAP (OPtimising Treatment of Community Acquired Pneumonia, A quality assessment, multicenter collaboration)
Door to needle time, total length of iv and oral antibiotics, proper microbiological assessment and re-evaluation <72 hours
- Improving microbiological sampling in patients with pneumonia, a RCT. (KUPL)
- Validation of CAVE penicillin to increase the use of penicillin and to decrease the use of broad spectrum antibiotics, a multicenter study; Antibiotic Stewardship.
- Central Nervous Infections, DASGIB (Danish Study Group for Infections in the Brain) a multicenter collaboration, research and quality assessment.
- Chronic viral infections, multicenter collaboration, research and quality assessment participation in: The Danish HIV cohort (DHK) and the Danish hepatitis cohort (DAN-HEP), The Danish Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) registry
- Co-morbidities and infections
- Pneumonia and Diabetes. Assessment of prevalence and interactions in patients with double burden of disease. Cap North a Danish pneumonia cohort in collaboration with www.CAPNETZ.de
- TB and Diabetes. Assessment of prevalence and interactions in patients with double burden of disease. (The Danish Diabetes study (multicenter collaboration P.I at SDCC and HGH)
- TB and hepatitis, a Danish prevalence study
- Tuberculosis
- TB in asylum seekers, a register and a clinical study.
- Prevention of diseases in immunosuppressed individuals.
- Assessment of diagnostic tests for latent TB infection among immunosuppressed individuals and patients with diabetes Multicenter study www.TBNET.eu
Disciplines, methods, tools:
- Clinical science
- Epidemiological studies