A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a tailored intervention to improve the initial management of suspected encephalitis

• Ruth Backman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6931-8672

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• Robbie Foy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Peter J. Diggle,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Department Epidemiology and Population Health, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Rachel Kneen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Neurology, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Ava Easton,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Encephalitis Society, Malton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Sylviane Defres,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Fiona McGill,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Benedict Daniel Michael,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Tom Solomon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tsolomon@liverpool.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• on behalf of the ENCEPH UK Programme Steering Committee

  ¶ENCEPH UK Programme Steering Group Membership is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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