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01-09-2019 | Brain Death | Editorial

Doing more of less: what registry data tell us about death in PICU

Authors: Thomas Brick, Roger C. Parslow

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2019

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The development of paediatric critical care registries, a term we take to include national audits and research databases, has been instrumental in helping us understand the state of children’s critical care and thereby provide a platform for future improvement. Comprehensive datasets enable monitoring of activity and outcomes for audit, safety and service planning. Registry databases play a crucial role in paediatric critical care research by providing information for observational studies and data to plan multicentre interventional clinical trials. There are a number of examples: the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) collects data for every admission to paediatric intensive care units (PICU) in the UK and Ireland, and the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care Registry (ANZPICR) collects data for children admitted to PICUs and adult intensive care units. Virtual Pediatric Systems (VPS) is a large database covering over 135 units and over 1 million cases in the USA, but does not collect data from all national PICUs. …

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Title: Doing more of less: what registry data tell us about death in PICU
Authors: Thomas Brick
Roger C. Parslow
Publication date: 01-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Brain Death
Pediatric Intensive Care
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05714-x

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