The Trauma Infectious Disease Outcomes Study
TIDOS in a pretty unique project that has been funded since 2011. TIDOS is a collaboration between a research group at the Department of Defense and our research group here at the St. Louis VA run by our local Principal Investigator, Dr. Jay McDonald.
Over the years, TIDOS enrolled over 1,000 military personnel after severe combat trauma. They enrolled them once they got back to Walter Reed and San Antonio Military Medical Center and then followed them forward through time. The military follows them through their time in DoD care, and then shares their identifiers with us and then we look to see when they enter VA care. So, when they enter VA care, we call them to consent them and collect their VA data and share it back with the DoD. Then, we put all our data together in a huge database and try to understand how the early elements of care they got in the field or early on after injury, affect their long-term outcome, with the ultimate goal of improving the early care in the field of combat trauma.
Read more about TIDOS and Dr. McDonald's work in his interview with VREF.
IDSA Article: Infectious Complications After Deployment Trauma
Urinary Tract Infections after Combat-Related Genitourinary Trauma
After the Battlefield: Infectious Complications among Wounded Warriors in the Trauma Infectious Disease Outcomes Study
TIDOS in a pretty unique project that has been funded since 2011. TIDOS is a collaboration between a research group at the Department of Defense and our research group here at the St. Louis VA run by our local Principal Investigator, Dr. Jay McDonald.
Over the years, TIDOS enrolled over 1,000 military personnel after severe combat trauma. They enrolled them once they got back to Walter Reed and San Antonio Military Medical Center and then followed them forward through time. The military follows them through their time in DoD care, and then shares their identifiers with us and then we look to see when they enter VA care. So, when they enter VA care, we call them to consent them and collect their VA data and share it back with the DoD. Then, we put all our data together in a huge database and try to understand how the early elements of care they got in the field or early on after injury, affect their long-term outcome, with the ultimate goal of improving the early care in the field of combat trauma.
Read more about TIDOS and Dr. McDonald's work in his interview with VREF.
IDSA Article: Infectious Complications After Deployment Trauma
Urinary Tract Infections after Combat-Related Genitourinary Trauma
After the Battlefield: Infectious Complications among Wounded Warriors in the Trauma Infectious Disease Outcomes Study