Yearly Archives: 2014

Improving research

Posted on 14 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

A series of articles from a group of the great and the good in clinical research methodology and design. (Including Iain Chalmers and John Ioannidis). They all seem to be open access, and make some very important points and good … Continue reading →

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Comments about ‘More than a Diagnosis’

Posted on 13 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

My recent post about Annie Janvier’s paper, which described the experiences of families who had an antenatal diagnosis of trisomy 13 or trisomy 18 generated a lot of comments (at least a lot for my blog). Many of them are … Continue reading →

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Cohort study of Probiotics in our NICU

Posted on 13 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

Our article describing the results of introducing routine probiotic prophylaxis in our NICU has just become available on-line. Janvier A, Malo J, Barrington KJ: Cohort Study of Probiotics in a North American Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Journal of pediatrics … Continue reading →

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NIDCAP, battling systematic reviews.

Posted on 7 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

I mentioned Arne Ohlsson’s review of the NIDCAP studies in a previous post. A new systematic review comes to different conclusions. This review (Fazilleau L, Parienti JJ, Bellot A, Guillois B: Nidcap in preterm infants and the neurodevelopmental effect in … Continue reading →

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Stem Cells for BPD, we might be getting there, but without the cells

Posted on 7 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

The development of this field has been fascinating, one of the most productive investigators has been Bernard Thébaud who has just written a very clear review article for non cell researchers in Pediatric Research with his colleague Moses Fung. (Fung … Continue reading →

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More than a diagnosis

Posted on 6 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

The latest from Annie Janvier and team, a publication describing the experiences of families in their internet support group questionnaire study. this particular publication is interested in what happened to families that had a prenatal diagnosis, of trisomy 13 or trisomy … Continue reading →

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