All Stories

  1. History Taking as a Diagnostic Tool in Children With Chronic Cough

    Article • Frontiers in Pediatrics, April 2022, Frontiers

    Michael Shields, Woo-Jung Song

  2. Mobile video directly observed therapy can be used to improve at-home inhaler technique in children with asthma

    Article • ERJ Open Research, July 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Michael Shields

  3. Investigating the clinical use of structured light plethysmography to assess lung function in children with neuromuscular disorders

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2019, PLOS

    Michael Shields

  4. What causes prescribing errors in children? Review of existing evidence

    Article • BMJ Open, August 2019, BMJ

    Richard Conn, Michael Shields

  5. The child with an incessant dry cough

    Article • Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, April 2019, Elsevier

    Michael Shields

  6. Characterisation of morphological differences in well-differentiated nasal epithelial cell cultures from preterm and term infants at birth and one-year

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2018, PLOS

    Michael Shields, Prof. Ultan F Power

  7. Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Asthma Inception: Cause and Effect, or Shared Susceptibility?

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Shields

  8. Point-of-care testing for procalcitonin in identifying bacterial infections in young infants: a diagnostic accuracy study

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Shields

  9. 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...

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Damian Roland, Michael Shields

  10. The impact of fetal umbilical artery Doppler pulsatility index on childhood respiratory function and atopy – A prospective case-control study

    Article • The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Shields

  11. At-risk children with asthma (ARC): a systematic review

    Article • Thorax, June 2018, BMJ

    Michael Shields

  12. Pulmonary epithelial barrier and immunological functions at birth and in early life - key determinants of the development of asthma?  A description of the protocol for the Breathing Together study

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, May 2018, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Michael Shields, Prof. Ultan F Power, Professor Adnan Custovic

  13. Habit-tic cough: Presentation and outcome with simple reassurance

    Article • Pediatric Pulmonology, February 2018, Wiley

    Michael Shields

  14. S62 Identifying the child (5–12 years) with asthma at increased risk of attacks: the at-risk child with asthma (arc) systematic review

    Article • November 2017, BMJ

    Michael Shields

  15. How evidenced based and up to date are our cough guidelines?

    Article • Annals of Translational Medicine, March 2017, AME Publishing Company

    Michael Shields

  16. A comparison of different pre-lysis methods and extraction kits for recovery of Streptococcus agalacticae (Lancefield group B Streptococcus ) DNA from whole blood

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, October 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Shields

  17. The impact of incentives on the implementation of asthma or diabetes self-management: A systematic review

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, September 2016, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Michael Shields

  18. Chronic cough in children

    Article • Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, June 2013, Elsevier

    Michael Shields

  19. Cough

    Article • January 2013, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Michael Shields

  20. The difficult coughing child: prolonged acute cough in children

    Article • Cough, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Shields

  21. Genetic susceptibility to invasive meningococcal disease: MBL2 structural polymorphisms revisited in a large case-control study and a systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Immunogenetics, February 2012, Wiley

    Michael Shields

  22. Respiratory viral infection in lower airways of asymptomatic children

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, March 2010, Wiley

    Michael Shields

  23. Non-specific isolated persistent cough

    Article • Paediatrics and Child Health, June 2009, Elsevier

    Michael Shields

  24. Recommendations for the assessment and management of cough in children

    Article • Thorax, September 2007, BMJ

    Michael Shields

  25. Diagnosing chronic cough in children

    Article • Thorax, August 2006, BMJ

    Michael Shields

  26. The endoscopic appearance of the oesophago-gastric junction during 'J Manoeuvre' is associated with gastro-oesophageal reflux

    Article • Endoscopy, April 2005, Thieme Publishing Group

    Michael Shields

  27. Assessment of gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms in children

    Article • Endoscopy, April 2005, Thieme Publishing Group

    Michael Shields

  28. Home Heating and Respiratory Symptoms among Children in Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Article • Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Shields

  29. The repeatability of nonbronchoscopic bronchoalveolar lavage differential cell counts

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, December 2001, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Michael Shields

  30. Acute Asthma Exacerbations and Air Pollutants in Children Living in Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Article • Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal, May 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Shields

  31. High-dose inhaled steroids in asthmatic children

    Article • The Lancet, September 1996, Elsevier

    Michael Shields

  32. Growth and adrenal suppression in asthmatic children treated with high-dose fluticasone propionate

    Article • The Lancet, July 1996, Elsevier

    Michael Shields

  33. Infantile spasms associated with theophylline toxicity

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, February 1995, Wiley

    Michael Shields