Monthly Archives: November 2013

Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 6 Conflating Death and Disability

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. This particular … Continue reading

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Communication ability in persons with trisomy 18 and trisomy 13

As a neonatologist there is much important pediatric literature that I do not follow. There is much that has relevance to what we do in the NICU, so much that no-one can keep up with it all. Many of us are … Continue reading

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Banking on it

I guess this was the next step, after blood banks, and human milk banks, the next big advance is a poop bank. Although we don’t know if autologous stool transplants will be as successful as donor stool to treat C … Continue reading

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 5. Impairment, what does it mean?

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading

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Neonatal updates

Potijk MR, Kerstjens JM, Bos AF, Reijneveld SA, de Winter AF: Developmental Delay in Moderately Preterm-Born Children with Low Socioeconomic Status: Risks Multiply. The Journal of pediatrics 2013, 163(5):1289-1295. The team in Groningen have been publishing fascinating data about the … Continue reading

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 4. Selectively quoting the literature

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 3. Misquoting the evidence.

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 2. The GRADE approach is inappropriate, but at least do it right.

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading

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All trials must be published

A recent article in the BMJ reports that when they investigated large RCTs (more than 500 participants)  that had been registered and appeared to have been completed at least 4 years ago, 29% of them were still not published. The … Continue reading

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 1. Inappropriate simplistic rules are unethical.

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading

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