| The DCRI Infectious Disease (ID) division
includes more than 20 experienced physician-investigators
with various specialties. Each is involved trial design and
management to ensure smooth operation and focused protocols
that ask the right questions.
Our ID division also features the Duke Infection Control
Outreach Network (DICON). This is a consortium of research
sites at 25 hospitals across the Southeast and in Taiwan.
DICON has amassed a database of over 155,000 surgical procedures
and more than 3.4 million patient-days of demographic, treatment,
and outcomes information. The result is a wealth of data to
speed and improve trial design.
In addition, the Infectious Diseases division taps the wealth
of data represented by the Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia
Group (SABG) and the International Collaboration on Endocarditis
(ICE), both headquartered at the DCRI. SABG has the largest
collection of S. aureus bacteremia outcomes data
in the world, with more than 1300 patients in the registry
and 12 weeks of follow-up that includes genetic fingerprinting.
ICE
is the most extensive registry of infective endocarditis in
the world, comprising 1600 patients enrolled in the prospective
registry and another 3000 in a retrospective database. ICE
collects extensive outcomes data, including ECG and serology
core laboratory analyses.
Director: Ralph Corey, MD
Contact: Jenny Brews
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