READ ME File For 'The RUTI trial'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D0410

ReadMe Author: Drs Kim Harman, Andrew Flower and Merlin Wilcox, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the publication:The RUTI trial: a feasibility study exploring Chinese herbal medicine for 
the treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections. 

Ethical aproval was given by London Surrey borders REC under reference 14/LO/1425 
the MHRA approved the trial reference EudraCT 2013-004657-24 for the standardised arm.
Further approval was given by the UK register for Chinese Herbal Medicine ethics committee.

The Sponsor was the University of Southampton reference 141599/17320.

Contents

This dataset contains data which are used for generating the tables and graphs in the manuscript 'The RUTI trial: a feasibility study exploring 
Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections'

The trial data (without diary entry) is in the excel 'RUTI trial data (Final)'. A data tab gives inforrmation on how the numbering relates 
to the CRFs.

The diary data is supplied in two forms, one where the diary data is entered where the symptom score has been used contionusly 
throughout the diary as some participants were never free of symptoms and another set where it is entered where a low score 
has been used with the assumption that this is not a UTI as would 'normally' be defined making episodic data.  

The interviews are as below
IP are the interviews conducted on women taking part in the individualised arm of the trial
SP are interviews conducted on women in the standardised arm of the trial
GP are interviews conducted GPs and practice nurses running the trial in Peninsula and West of England CRNs
PN are interviews conducted on GPs and Practice nurses runing the trial around Wessex CRN

Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.

No related projects 

Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence and request to the PI Dr Andrew Flower PI via andrew.flower@soton.ac.uk

Data collection 09/2016-03/2018.

Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K. The Protocol is avaialable via https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1471-5.

Files - RUTI trial data (Final) contains all the data except the Diaries.
RUTI diary continuous entry 1.2, containing data as described above, 
RUTI diary episodic entry 1.2, containing data as described above. Each contaians a Data sheet tab which explains the numbering.
The interviews are as described above.