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  1. When is a ‘decision’ an important decision in a decision tool
  2. Mental Health Admissions to Paediatric Wards Study (MAPS): a protocol for the analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data
  3. Mental Health Admissions to Paediatric Wards Study (MAPS): protocol of a prospective study of mental health admissions to paediatric wards in England using surveillance and qualitative methods
  4. Prevalence of invasive bacterial infection in febrile infants ≤90 days with a COVID-19 positive test: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  5. Clinical Impact of Serious Respiratory Disease in Children Under the Age of 2 Years During the 2021–2022 Bronchiolitis Season in England, Scotland, and Ireland
  6. Asperger’s syndrome – about time to rename it?
  7. ‘Admissions to paediatric medical wards with a primary mental health diagnosis: a systematic review of the literature’
  8. High Flow humidified oxygen as an early intervention in children with acute severe asthma: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (Preprint)
  9. High Flow humidified oxygen as an early intervention in children with acute severe asthma: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (Preprint)
  10. Core outcomes and factors influencing the experience of care for children with severe acute exacerbations of asthma: a qualitative study
  11. Have the UK Pediatric Trauma Protocols resulted in a reduction in chest computed tomography imaging for children presenting with major blunt trauma?
  12. What does SARS‐CoV‐2 tell us about the aetiology of environmental triggers for diabetes in children and young people?
  13. Applying clinical decision aids for the assessment and management of febrile infants presenting to emergency care in the UK and Ireland: Febrile Infant Diagnostic Assessment and Outcome (FIDO) Study protocol
  14. Developing rights-based standards for children having tests, treatments, examinations and interventions: using a collaborative, multi-phased, multi-method and multi-stakeholder approach to build consensus
  15. 2021/22 and 2022/23 Post-Pandemic Bronchiolitis Seasons in Two Major Italian Cities: A Prospective Study
  16. Feasibility of using a community pharmacist within a Children’s Emergency Department
  17. Time for paediatrics to screen out sepsis “screening”
  18. Sedation and Analgesia for Reduction of Pediatric Ileocolic Intussusception
  19. Children presenting with diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis to Emergency Departments during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and Ireland: an international retrospective observational study
  20. Comparison of injury patterns and interventions between adolescent, adult and paediatric trauma cases: a cross-sectional review of TARN data
  21. Decision Challenges for Managing Acute Paediatric Infections: Implications for Antimicrobial Resistance
  22. In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19
  23. Types of diagnostic errors reported by paediatric emergency providers in a global paediatric emergency care research network
  24. The clinical impact of serious respiratory disease in children under the age of two during the 2021-2022 bronchiolitis season in the United Kingdom and Ireland
  25. Response to ‘Measuring the association between temperature and heart rate in children: be aware of the uncertainties’
  26. International perspective on research priorities and outcome measures of importance in the care of children with acute exacerbations of asthma: a qualitative interview study
  27. Identification of sick children in acute care settings
  28. Journal update monthly top five
  29. Time to change the reference ranges of children's physiological observations in emergency care? A prospective study
  30. International variation in evidence-based emergency department management of bronchiolitis: a retrospective cohort study
  31. Assessing Healthcare Professionals’ Identification of Paediatric Dermatological Conditions in Darker Skin Tones
  32. The challenges of doing paediatric research during the first year of the covid-19 pandemic
  33. Respective roles of non-pharmaceutical interventions in bronchiolitis outbreaks: an interrupted time-series analysis based on a multinational surveillance system
  34. International practice patterns of IV magnesium in paediatric acute asthma
  35. Use of Telemedicine in Pediatric Services for 4 Representative Clinical Conditions: Scoping Review
  36. Presentation design and delivery to improve knowledge translation in a remote world
  37. Influence of epidemics and pandemics on paediatric ED use: a systematic review
  38. Identification of sepsis in paediatric emergency departments: A scoping review
  39. The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings
  40. Features of the transposed seasonality of the 2021 RSV epidemic in the UK and Ireland: analysis of the first 10 000 patients
  41. Navigating uncertain illness trajectories for young children with serious infectious illness: a modified grounded theory study
  42. Presentations of children to emergency departments across Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic: A multinational observational study
  43. Diagnostic test accuracy of dipstick urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection in febrile infants attending the emergency department
  44. Safety-netting in the consultation
  45. Paediatric early warning systems: not a simple answer to a complex question
  46. Rhinovirus persistence during the COVID‐19 pandemic—Impact on pediatric acute wheezing presentations
  47. Immobilisation of torus fractures of the wrist in children (FORCE): a randomised controlled equivalence trial in the UK
  48. Offer of a bandage versus rigid immobilisation in 4- to 15-year-olds with distal radius torus fractures: the FORCE equivalence RCT
  49. The landscape of pediatric procedural sedation in UK & Irish emergency departments; a PERUKI study
  50. Fifteen-minute consultation: An overview of major incidents
  51. Comparison of UK paediatric SARS-CoV-2 admissions across the first and second pandemic waves
  52. Epidemiology, Microbiology and Severity of Bronchiolitis in the First Post-Lockdown Cold Season in Three Different Geographical Areas in Italy: A Prospective, Observational Study
  53. Patterns of presentations of children to emergency departments across Europe and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective observational multinational study
  54. Periorbital and orbital cellulitis in children: a survey of emergency physicians and analysis of clinical practice guidelines across the PERUKI network
  55. Features of an aseasonal 2021 RSV epidemic in the UK and Ireland: analysis of the first 10,000 patients
  56. Impact of Diversity in Training Resources on Self-Confidence in Diagnosing Skin Conditions Across a Range of Skin Tones: An International Survey
  57. Prediction of Pediatric Patient Admission/Discharge in the Emergency Department
  58. Impact of COVID-19 on paediatric emergency department attendances at four English hospitals
  59. Study Pre-protocol for “BronchStart - The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Timing, Age and Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Emergency Presentations; a Multi-Centre Prospective Observational Cohort Study”
  60. Piloting a registry for paediatric sepsis: The PoRPoiSe study
  61. Value of children in our world
  62. Point-of-care testing in Paediatric settings in the UK and Ireland: a cross-sectional study
  63. Distributed Autonomous Organization of Learning: Future Structure for Health Professions Education Institutions
  64. Development, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based paediatric early warning system improvement programme: the PUMA mixed methods study
  65. Children Presenting with Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis to Emergency Departments During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK and Ireland: An International Retrospective Observational Study
  66. Concomitant Infection of COVID19 and Serious Bacterial Infection in Infants Less Than 90 Days Old during the Omicron Surge
  67. Features of an Aseasonal 2021 RSV Epidemic in the UK and Ireland: Analysis of the First 10,000 Patients
  68. Patterns of Presentations of Children to Emergency Departments Across Europe and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Observational Multinational Study
  69. Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study
  70. Capturing Parents’ Perspectives of Child Wellness to Support Identification of Acutely Unwell Children in the Emergency Department
  71. Responses of paediatric emergency departments to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: a cross-sectional survey study
  72. Effect of Amoxicillin Dose and Treatment Duration on the Need for Antibiotic Re-treatment in Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
  73. Amoxicillin duration and dose for community-acquired pneumonia in children: the CAP-IT factorial non-inferiority RCT
  74. The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: a decade old and growing
  75. A practical approach to the intoxicated child
  76. Comparison of children and young people admitted with SARS-CoV-2 across the UK in the first and second pandemic waves: prospective multicentre observational cohort study
  77. Final warning on the need for integrated care systems in acute paediatrics
  78. Validating clinical practice guidelines for the management of febrile infants presenting to the emergency department in the UK and Ireland
  79. Increased admissions to paediatric wards with a primary mental health diagnosis: results of a survey of a network of eating disorder paediatricians in England
  80. Brief resolved unexplained events: a new diagnosis, with implications for evaluation and management
  81. Caring for a sick or injured child during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown in 2020 in the UK: An online survey of parents' experiences
  82. Gender equity in free open access medical education
  83. Implementing spirometry and fractional exhaled nitric oxide testing in childhood asthma management in UK primary care: an observational study to examine training and implementation cost and impact on patient’s health use and outcome
  84. Navigating uncertain illness trajectories for young children with serious infectious illness: a mixed-methods modified grounded theory study
  85. What Are the Real-World Podcast-Listening Habits of Medical Professionals?
  86. The Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN): A decade of global research cooperation in paediatric emergency care
  87. Point-Of-Care Testing in Paediatric Settings in the UK and Ireland: a Cross-Sectional Study
  88. The Pediatric Emergency Research Network
  89. Building a community of practice through social media using the hashtag #neoEBM
  90. Risk factors for asthma attacks and poor control in children: a prospective observational study in UK primary care
  91. Study Pre-protocol for “BronchStart - The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Timing, Age and Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Emergency Presentations; a Multi-Centre Prospective Observational Cohort Study”
  92. Bibliography of published COVID-19 in children literature
  93. Erratum to “When is a rash not ‘just’ a rash? A guide to recognition and treatment of paediatric dermatological emergencies” [Paediatrics 31 (1) 46–54]
  94. Study Pre-protocol for “BronchStart - The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Timing, Age and Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Emergency Presentations; a Multi-Centre Prospective Observational Cohort Study”
  95. SAFEGUARDING SHOULD BE A KEY OUTCOME MEASURE WHEN EVALUATING VIDEO CONSULTATIONS IN PAEDIATRICS
  96. Validating clinical practice guidelines for the management of children with non-blanching rashes in the UK (PiC): a prospective, multicentre cohort study
  97. Mortality in adolescent trauma: a comparison of children’s, mixed and adult major trauma centres
  98. A survey of mHealth use from a physician perspective in paediatric emergency care in the UK and Ireland
  99. Bridging the language gap for simulation resources
  100. Distributed Autonomous Organization of Learning: Future Structure for Health Professions Education Institutions (Preprint)
  101. Emergency Medicine Journal COVID-19 monthly top five
  102. Utilisation and accuracy of the emergency care data set in children with food allergy and anaphylaxis
  103. Erratum to “COVID-19 in children: what did we learn from the first waveˮ [Paediatr Child Health 30 (2020) 438–443/1496]
  104. The impact of digital educational interventions to support parents caring for acutely ill children at home and factors that affect their use: systematic review protocol (Preprint)
  105. Paediatric Common Infections Pathways: improving antimicrobial stewardship and promoting ambulation for children presenting with common infections to hospitals in the UK and Ireland
  106. Schools Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  107. Case for change: a standardised inpatient paediatric early warning system in England
  108. What level of immobilisation is necessary for treatment of torus (buckle) fractures of the distal radius in children?
  109. When is a rash not ‘just’ a rash? A guide to recognition and treatment of paediatric dermatological emergencies
  110. Schools Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Catastrophic Global Situation
  111. Schools Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Catastrophic Global Situation
  112. Observational cohort study with internal and external validation of a predictive tool for identification of children in need of hospital admission from the emergency department: the Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) score
  113. COVID-19 in children: what did we learn from the first wave?
  114. Incidence of spread of clinically relevant SARS-CoV2 infection between children in a tertiary emergency department: An evaluation
  115. Time to improve the diversity of paediatric skin images
  116. Social media and young people's health
  117. Evaluation of a novel approach to recognising community-acquired paediatric sepsis at ED triage by combining an electronic screening algorithm with clinician assessment
  118. Fifteen-minute consultation: Does this child have COVID-19 (and does it matter)?
  119. Letter in response to letter by Diba Behzad‐Noori & Gurdas Singh in response to ‘Prescribing in a paediatric emergency’
  120. Diagnostic test accuracy of point-of-care procalcitonin to diagnose serious bacterial infections in children
  121. Spirometry and FeNO testing for asthma in children in UK primary care: a prospective observational cohort study of feasibility and acceptability
  122. COVID-19 is not a driver of clinically significant viral wheeze and asthma
  123. A preimplementation survey for a standardised approach to paediatric early warning systems
  124. A Pediatric Strategy for the Next Phase of the SARS–CoV-2 Pandemic
  125. Inter-rater reliability of paediatric emergency assessment: physiological and clinical features
  126. Fifteen minute consultation: When can I use a medical app?
  127. Opt-out Consent in Children’s Emergency Medicine Research
  128. The Baby Shark (songs heard affecting resuscitation kinetics) study
  129. Did children ‘stay safe’? Evaluation of burns presentations to a children’s emergency department during the period of COVID-19 school closures
  130. Prescribing in a paediatric emergency: A PERUKI Survey of Prescribing and Resuscitation Aids
  131. Fifteen-minute consultation: Assessing the child with an elbow injury
  132. A systematic review of the organizational, environmental, professional and child and family factors influencing the timing of admission to hospital for children with serious infectious illness
  133. Have changes in computerised tomography guidance positively impacted detection of cervical spine injury in children? A review of the Trauma Audit and Research Network data
  134. International Practice Patterns of Antibiotic Therapy and Laboratory Testing in Bronchiolitis
  135. Throat and ear infections in children: URTI in the time of COVID-19
  136. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification for the early diagnosis of invasive meningococcal disease in children
  137. Navigating success for early stage investigators—practical words of advice
  138. Evaluating the reliability of gestalt quality ratings of medical education podcasts: A METRIQ study
  139. Children's emergency presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic
  140. A multicentre prospective randomized equivalence trial of a soft bandage and immediate discharge versus current treatment with rigid immobilization for torus fractures of the distal radius in children
  141. Every cloud: how the COVID-19 pandemic may benefit child health
  142. The child with prolonged fever: when to think zebras
  143. Preparedness and response to Pediatric CoVID-19 in European Emergency Departments: a survey of the REPEM and PERUKI networks
  144. Preparedness and response to Pediatric CoVID-19 in European Emergency Departments: a survey of the REPEM and PERUKI networks
  145. What can the randomness of missing values tell you about clinical practice in large data sets of children’s vital signs?
  146. Acute severe paediatric asthma: study protocol for the development of a core outcome set, a Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) study
  147. A Description of COVID-19 Incidence and Outcomes in a Large Tertiary Paediatric Emergency Department
  148. A Rapid Multi-Centre Service Evaluation of Presentations to Children's Emergency Departments During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  149. Initial assessment and management of agitation and aggression in the paediatric setting
  150. Fifteen-minute consultation: The infant with a neck lump
  151. Inter-rater reliability in a bespoke scoring tool: the Paediatric Observation Priority Score
  152. An international, interprofessional investigation of the self-reported podcast listening habits of emergency clinicians: A METRIQ Study
  153. Epidemiology of adolescent trauma in England: a review of TARN data 2008–2017
  154. Fine balance between pragmatism and rigidness in system approaches to acute care
  155. Lung function and asthma control in school-age children managed in UK primary care: a cohort study
  156. Acute severe paediatric asthma: study protocol for the development of a core outcome set, a Pediatric Emergency Networks (PERN) study
  157. Toward the elimination of bias in Pediatric Research
  158. Learning from mistakes on social media
  159. Mobile device and app use in paediatric emergency care: a survey of departmental practice in the UK and Ireland
  160. Parents’ and clinicians’ views on conducting paediatric diagnostic test accuracy studies without prior informed consent: qualitative insight from the Petechiae in Children study (PiC)
  161. Pharmacotherapy in bronchiolitis at discharge from emergency departments within the Pediatric Emergency Research Networks: a retrospective analysis
  162. Efficacy, safety and impact on antimicrobial resistance of duration and dose of amoxicillin treatment for young children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: a protocol for a randomIsed controlled Trial (CAP-IT)
  163. Validity and effectiveness of paediatric early warning systems and track and trigger tools for identifying and reducing clinical deterioration in hospitalised children: a systematic review
  164. Levetiracetam versus phenytoin for second-line treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus (EcLiPSE): a multicentre, open-label, randomised trial
  165. A cross-sectional description of open access publication costs, policies and impact in emergency medicine and critical care journals
  166. Reclaiming the systems approach to paediatric safety
  167. Incidence of medically attended paediatric burns across the UK
  168. Canadian and UK/Ireland practice patterns in lumbar puncture performance in febrile neonates with bronchiolitis
  169. Beyond Mortality: Improving Outcomes for Children Who Deteriorate in Inpatient Settings
  170. Everything is awesome: Don't forget the Lego
  171. Guideline developers are not the only experts: Utilising the FRAM method in sepsis pathways
  172. Fifteen-minute consultation: Safety netting effectively
  173. Pediatric Emergency Care Research Networks: A Research Agenda
  174. In reply:
  175. Defining significant childhood illness and injury in the Emergency Department: a consensus of UK and Ireland expert opinion
  176. Refining and testing the diagnostic accuracy of an assessment tool (PAT-POPS) to predict admission and discharge of children and young people who attend an emergency department: protocol for an observational study
  177. Social media for pediatric research: what, who, why, and #?
  178. The “Petechiae in children” (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA – a stud...
  179. Utilising social media to educate and inform healthcare professionals, policy-makers and the broader community in evidence-based healthcare
  180. A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective Paediatric Early Warning System and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in...
  181. Initial Standardized Framework for Reporting Social Media Analytics in Emergency Care Research
  182. What are you looking at?
  183. How the Availability of Observation Status Affects Emergency Physician Decisionmaking
  184. ‘So why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics
  185. Explanations for increasing hospital admissions of children under 5 years of age in the UK.
  186. Inter-rater reliability in the Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS)
  187. Comparison of Blood Eosinophil Numbers Between Acute Asthma and Stable Disease in Children with Preschool Wheeze
  188. Practice Variation in Acute Bronchiolitis: A Pediatric Emergency Research Networks Study
  189. Five-year forward view: lessons from emergency care at the extremes of age
  190. Social Media, Health Policy, and Knowledge Translation
  191. Management of children and young people with an acute decrease in conscious level (RCPCH guideline update 2015)
  192. Social media and the digital health arena
  193. Preliminary Evidence for the Emergence of a Health Care Online Community of Practice: Using a Netnographic Framework for Twitter Hashtag Analytics
  194. OC-75 Social media: a new age of knowledge translation in paediatrics
  195. Spotting the black swan: why emergency medicine is ahead of the curve
  196. Paediatric Early Warning Systems: myths and muses
  197. Are Increasing Volumes of Children and Young People Presenting to Emergency Departments Due to Increasing Severity of Illness?
  198. What are the measures that can be used to assess performance during in situ Paediatric Emergency Medicine Simulation?
  199. Use or Abuse? A Qualitative Study of Emergency Physicians' Views on Use of Observation Stays at Three Hospitals in the United States and England
  200. Distal forearm fractures can be reliably diagnosed using ultrasound
  201. Have we forgotten to teach how to think?
  202. YouTube: are parent-uploaded videos of their unwell children a useful source of medical information for other parents?
  203. Evidence-based medicine in the era of social media: Scholarly engagement through participation and online interaction
  204. Baseline Characteristics of the Paediatric Observation Priority Score in Emergency Departments outside Its Centre of Derivation
  205. Rapid Response Systems 20 Years Later
  206. We should investigate social media’s value properly
  207. OC25 – Helping parents spot the deteriorating child: co-production of safety-netting interventions
  208. OC26 – Parents of young children in research: informants, consultants and collaborators
  209. Scoring systems in paediatric emergency care: Panacea or paper exercise?
  210. Early warning scores: a health warning
  211. Clinicians’ overestimation of febrile child risk assessment
  212. Information resources to aid parental decision-making on when to seek medical care for their acutely sick child: a narrative systematic review
  213. A qualitative study of self-evaluation of junior doctor performance: is perceived ‘safeness’ a more useful metric than confidence and competence?
  214. Is perception of quality more important than technical quality in patient video cases?
  215. Top 10 ways to reconcile social media and ‘traditional’ education in emergency care
  216. Safeguarding children and improving their care in the UK
  217. Proposal of a linear rather than hierarchical evaluation of educational initiatives: the 7Is framework
  218. Will social media make or break medical conferences
  219. Use of patient video cases in medical education
  220. Female perineal injuries in children and adolescents presenting to a paediatric emergency department
  221. Developing a coordinated research strategy for child health-related simulation in the UK: phase 1: Table 1
  222. But I told you she was ill! The role of families in preventing avoidable harm in children
  223. Career intentions and choices of paediatricians entering training in the UK
  224. Are you a SCEPTIC? SoCial mEdia Precision & uTility In Conferences
  225. Parent's information seeking in acute childhood illness: what helps and what hinders decision making?
  226. Parents’ help-seeking behaviours during acute childhood illness at home
  227. The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England: an analysis using emergency department data
  228. Does the use of antipyretics prolong the duration of fever or illness?
  229. Information needs of parents for acute childhood illness: determining ‘what, how, where and when’ of safety netting using a qualitative exploration with parents and clinicians
  230. Delivering quality improvement: the need to believe it is necessary
  231. Safety netting in healthcare settings: what it means, and for whom?
  232. The safety netting behaviour of first contact clinicians: a qualitative study
  233. Use of paediatric early warning systems in Great Britain: has there been a change of practice in the last 7 years?
  234. Assessment and initial management of feverish illness in children younger than 5 years: summary of updated NICE guidance
  235. Republished: Paediatric early warning scores: Holy Grail and Achilles' heel
  236. The importance of currency in data trends
  237. What has the GMC ever done for trainees?
  238. A healthy nation: strengthening child health research in the UK
  239. Towards a conceptual framework demonstrating the effectiveness of audiovisual patient descriptions (patient video cases): a review of the current literature
  240. Engaging with leadership learning in the workplace
  241. Paediatric early warning scores: Holy Grail and Achilles' heel
  242. New theory from an old technique: the Rolma matrices
  243. Management of oesophageal coins in children
  244. Bullying: resources and guidance for trainees
  245. A new deal for deaneries?
  246. Engaging paediatricians in planning the training of our future workforce
  247. Paediatric trainees and the quality improvement agenda: don't just do another audit
  248. Antibiotics in childhood burns
  249. Education by video
  250. Adequately assessing dehydration: A holy grail of paediatric emergency medicine
  251. An early warning? Universal risk scoring in emergency medicine
  252. Does a standardised scoring system of clinical signs reduce variability between doctors' assessments of the potentially dehydrated child?
  253. Seat belt associated central line fracture—A previously unreported complication in cystic fibrosis
  254. Tertiary Pediatric Emergency Department Admission Rates Fall as Waiting Times Increase
  255. Self-assessment
  256. Assessing effectiveness of an e-learning tool to aid junior doctor management of febrile children