If you ever doubted the value of clinical audit (not that you would😊), here's a nice illustration from CASC Leicester 👇

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MBRRACE-UK has published a State of the Nation report on perinatal deaths of babies born in 2022. This report covers all babies who died during pregnancy or within 28 days of being born. Here are the key findings 👇 MBRRACE UK NPEU-Oxford Oxford Population Health (OxPop)

This weeks Take A Break (18th July), Williams story featuring my comments on #MarthasRule The UK Sepsis Trust

NEW!! Our statistical glossary is now available on our website, paper coming soon! Let us know what you think, useful? any terms missing? Leicester's Research NIHR ARC East Midlands leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/ppismart/ppism…

The PICANet data dashboard has been refreshed, now featuring the provisional data from January - March 2024. You can access it via our website here: picanet.org.uk/data-collectio…

💙NWTS💙 are holding their annual conference on 25th September and are now calling for abstracts for either poster or oral presentations. Any grade or designation can submit. Prizes for the best oral and poster presentations!

1/4: UK #PedsICU admit the sickest children. Should we expect different admission rates for children from different ethnic backgrounds? Does deprivation influence the risk of admission? How about pollution? Find out from Hannah Mitchell's excellent research: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Contribution of ethnicity, deprivation and air pollution to PICU admissions in the UK When restricting to unplanned respiratory admissions and ventilated patients only, increasing pollution level was associated with increased incidence of PICU admission thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

When someone is choking, coughing will be ineffective, and breathing will be difficult, noisy or impossible. Our interactive Lifesaver video walks you through how to identify when someone is choking and the steps to help them. Check out Rebecca's story: lifesaver.org.uk

1/4 Sharing our latest research on disparities according to social and environmental determinants of health in UK PICU admissions. We found increased rates of admission to PICU (both planned an unplanned) in children living in areas with higher levels of child poverty.

One of the best sessions- a joint presentation by Ben G and A/Prof Steve Warrilow about transitioning from #pedsicu to adult ICU. So many pertinent points about the challenges faced by both sides! And we should definitely do more adult/paed collabs at #apics2024!

A couple of years ago I thought it might be fun to start the week with a tweet about some aspect of trial, or related, methodology - tagged #MethodologyMonday. 100 topics later, I hope you have found some of them useful. Here is a list of the topics so far 1/2

📢Last few days to apply for our MSc Quality & Safety in Healthcare University of Leicester. Deadline is Sept 9th. Part time & full time options. Read more, including testimonials from our graduates, at: le.ac.uk/courses/qualit…📢

🚨Our new #pedsicu paper in ADC is out Transport of critically ill children to paediatric intensive care units in the UK & Ireland:2013–2022 Based on decade of PICANet Audit data Collaborated with Sarah E Seaton 🏳️‍🌈 Michael Griksaitis Deirdre O'Shea💙 Hannah Buckley - Senior Research Statistician et al shorturl.at/hmWni

Today marks the start of the RSV vaccination programme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This is a welcome move to help reduce the adverse health impacts associated with RSV infection in infants. Find our more our website: rcpch.ac.uk/resources/our-…

Transport of critically ill children to PICU in in UK and Ireland: 2013–2022 Just under 5000 children/yr transported Half <1 year old 75% accompanied by parent Retrospective PICANet Audit data Sarah E Seaton 🏳️‍🌈 Michael Griksaitis Deirdre O'Shea💙 Hannah Buckley - Senior Research Statistician adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

The UK’s survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are lower than comparable countries due to factors like low CPR awareness, fewer bystanders acting, and limited defib access. Our #EverySecondCounts report highlights how we can change this: resus.org.uk/every-second-c…

Interested in developing a clinical prediction model? Check out our new paper 🥳🥳🥳 in the The BMJ where we present a step-by-step guide bmj.com/content/386/bm… Together with Matthias Egger Georgia Salanti Konstantina Chalkou Thomas Debray. Special thanks to Richard Riley (R²) for his help!

We are nearly halfway <100 patients to go.. which site will recruit the 2350th child? ICNARC National Institute for Health and Care Research Prof Dr Lyvonne Tume RN Mark Peters Julie Menzies st