Professor Steve Goodacre

MB, ChB, MRCP, DipIMC, FRCEM, MSc, PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator

Senior Associate Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine

Steve Goodacre
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s.goodacre@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0842

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Professor Steve Goodacre
School of Medicine and Population Health
3023
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

I am a clinical academic in emergency medicine and researcher in emergency care.

Research interests

Research interests: My research interests include clinical risk prediction in emergency care, economic analysis, clinical trials, and organisation of emergency care.

Current and recent projects:

  • TOPLINE: TOols to Predict when Life-saving Intervention is Needed in Emergency care. Funded by NIHR Programme Development Grants, £249,717, June 2025 to August 2026. 
  • Evaluation of NEWS2 in the initial assessment of adults attending the emergency department. Funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme, £148,090, November 2023 to October 2024. 
  • ASES: Aortic Syndrome Evidence Synthesis. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £200,759, January 2023 to December 2023. 
  • The PRIEST study: Pandemic Respiratory Infection Emergency System Triage. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £795,348, August 2012 to March 2021.

Co-investigator

  • EnSygN: Evidence S(heffield)ynthesis group for NIHR. Funded by the NIHR Evidence Synthesis Groups, £2,500,000, April 2023 to March 2028. 
  • TiLLI: Thromboprophylaxis in Lower Limb Immobilisation. Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, £3,058,779 (Queen Mary University of London), September 2023 to September 2028. 
  • OPTILOC: Optimising the clinical pathway of patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness. Funded by NIHR Programme Development Grant, £208,303. September 2025 to February 2027. 
  • PERIFERAL: Pathway enhancement for the referral of patients with incidental findings encountered by ambulance clinicians, Funded by NIHR Research for Patient Benefit, £199,996. May 2025 to April 2027. 
  • TOTs: Treatment of Toddlers Fractures: Observation Or Immobilisation (NIHR165784) Co-investigator. Funded by NIHR Health Technology Assessment, £1,034,336. January 2025 to October 2027. 
  • STALLED: SafeTy, pAtient experience, outcomes and costs of deLayed ambulance. Funded by NIHR Health Service & Delivery, £1,504,065. April 2024 to April 2027. 
  • ASPIRED: RCT of immediate enhanced ambulatory ECG monitoring versus standard monitoring in acute unexplained syncope, funded by the British Heart Foundation, £1,303,649 (Edinburgh Royal Infirmary), August 2021 to July 2025
Publications

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Reports

Posters

  • Jones K, Carroll C, Goodacre S, Marincowitz C, Sutton A, Bastounis A & Booth A (2025) The impact of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) services on urgent and emergency care delivery: key findings and limitations from a systematic review. HSR UK Conference 2025. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harthi N, Goodacre S, Sampson FC & Alharbi R (2022) PP15 Research priorities for prehospital care of older patients with injuries: scoping review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Johnston S, Snooks H, Jones J, Bell F, Benger J, Black S, Dixon S, Edwards A, Evans B, Fuller G , Goodacre S et al (2021) PP25 The take home naloxone intervention multicentre emergency setting feasibility (TIME) trial: an early perspective from one UK ambulance service. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodacre S, Pandor A, Poku E, Stevens JW, Ren S & Cantrell A (2015) Pre-hospital non-invasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. 999 EMS Research Forum Conference. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodacre S (2014) PRE-HOSPITAL NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION FOR ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NETWORK META ANALYSIS. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S, Pandor A, Fitzgerald P & Goodacre S (2010) Clinical Decision Rules for children with minor head injury: A systematic review. European Society of Emergency Medicine,(EuSEM) Stockholm. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S, Pandor A & Goodacre S A systematic review of Clinical Decision Rules in the management of adult minor head injury. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S & Goodacre S Diagnostic accuracy of individual characteristics following minor head injury in children: A systematic review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodacre S & Pickering A Management of isolated minor head injury in the United Kingdom. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carroll C, Goodacre S, Stevens J & Leaviss J Diagnostic accuracy of early biomarkers for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (2012). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pandor A, Harnan S, Goodacre S, Pickering A, Fitzgerald P & Rees A Diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pandor A, Harnan S, Goodacre S, Pickering A & Rees A Diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Leaviss J, Stevens J, J W, Goodacre S & F M Prognostic accuracy of Exercise ECG and CT Coronary Angiography to predict Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) in patients with suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS): A systematic review (2012). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Fitzgerald P, Harnan S, Pandor A & Goodacre S The role of biochemical markers in the identification of intracranial pathology following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harnan S, Pickering A, Pandor A & Goodacre S Clinical decision rules for adults with minor head injury: a systematic review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pickering A, Harnan S, Pandor A & Goodacre S Clinical Decision Rules for children with minor head injury: A systematic review. RIS download Bibtex download

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Teaching interests

My teaching interests are critical appraisal of the scientific literature, promoting evidence-based health care, advanced trauma life support (ATLS) and diagnostic pathways in emergency medicine.

I am interested in supervising students undertaking research in emergency care, such as evaluation of health technologies, changes to service delivery, methods to improve decision-making and methods for evaluating the quality of emergency care.