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About Keith Barrington

I am a neonatologist and clinical researcher at Sainte Justine University Health Center in Montréal

Neonatal updates

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

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

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

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.

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

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.

Posted on 6 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

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

Posted on 6 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

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.

Posted on 5 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

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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Preterm Babies are Human Beings Too

Posted on 5 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

The Canadian Medical Association Journal has just published a Commentary by 2 neonatologists from the USA. Batton D, Batton B: Advocating for equality for preterm infants. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2013. The commentary is in response to the CPS recent … Continue reading →

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100,000 page Views!

Posted on 4 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

I guess I am now an established blogger… just over 300 posts in about 18 months, 100,000 page views from 151 different countries. For a while I thought I must be blocked in China, but I now have had 2 … Continue reading →

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Palivizumab for late preterm infants, can we afford it?

Posted on 4 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

It is quite clear that palivizumab reduces the incidence of RSV disease, and probably also the severity, among those who still get it nevertheless. It is just as clear that it is extremely expensive. If RSV is likely to make … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Mortality: good news… could do better.

Posted on 3 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

The new report of the WHO Global Health Observatory notes that child mortality, infant mortality and neonatal mortality have all fallen substantially in the last 23 years. The efforts toward obtaining the millennium goals are bearing fruit. http://www.who.int/gho/child_health/mortality/neonatal_infant_text/en/index.html The detailed … Continue reading →

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