21 Result(s)

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Selective digestive tract decontamination to prevent healthcare associated infections in critically ill children: the PICNIC multicentre randomised pilot clinical trial

Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill children. Data from adult studies suggest Selective Decontamination of the Digestive tract (SDD) may redu...

Nazima Pathan, Kerry Woolfall, Mariana Popa, Gema Milla de la Fuente… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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The perception of risk in contracting and spreading COVID-19 amongst individuals, households and vulnerable groups in England: a longitudinal qualitative study

Social distancing restrictions to manage the COVID-19 pandemic were put in place from March 2020 in the United Kingdom (UK), with those classed as “highly clinically vulnerable” advised to shield entirely and ...

Kerry Hanna, Pam Clarke, Kerry Woolfall, Shaima Hassan, Katharine Abba… in BMC Public Health (2023)

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Complex and alternate consent pathways in clinical trials: methodological and ethical challenges encountered by underserved groups and a call to action

Informed consent is considered a fundamental requirement for participation in trials, yet obtaining consent is challenging in a number of populations and settings. This may be due to participants having commun...

Amy M. Russell, Victoria Shepherd, Kerry Woolfall, Bridget Young, Katie Gillies… in Trials (2023)

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Associations between parent–child relationship, and children’s externalizing and internalizing symptoms, and lifestyle behaviors in China during the COVID-19 epidemic

To investigate associations between parent–child relationships, children’s externalizing and internalizing symptoms, and lifestyle responses to the COVID-19 epidemic, we conducted an online survey of a random,...

Fanxing Du, Li He, Mark R. Francis, Mark Forshaw, Kerry Woolfall… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Can they stomach it? Parent and practitioner acceptability of a trial comparing gastric residual volume measurement versus no gastric residual volume in UK NNU and PICUs: a feasibility study

Routine measurement of gastric residual volume (GRV) to guide feeding in neonatal and paediatric intensive care is widespread. However, this practice is not evidence based and may cause harm. As part of a feas...

Elizabeth Deja, Louise Roper, Lyvonne N. Tume, Jon Dorling… in Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2021)

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The PLANES study: a protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study of the placental growth factor (PlGF) blood test-informed care versus standard care alone for women with a small for gestational age fetus at or after 32 + 0 weeks’ gestation

Stillbirth remains a major concern across the globe and in some high-resource countries, such as the UK; efforts to reduce the rate have achieved only modest reductions. One third of stillborn babies are small...

Joanna Gent, Sian Bullough, Jane Harrold, Richard Jackson… in Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2020)

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Diagnostic test accuracy of point-of-care procalcitonin to diagnose serious bacterial infections in children

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have called for research into the role of biomarkers, and specifically procalcitonin (PCT), for the early diagnosis of serious bacterial infections ...

Thomas Waterfield, Julie-Ann Maney, Mark D Lyttle, James P McKenna… in BMC Pediatrics (2020)

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Enhancing practitioners’ confidence in recruitment and consent in the EcLiPSE trial: a mixed-method evaluation of site training – a Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom and Ireland (PERUKI) study

EcLiPSE (Emergency treatment with Levetiracetam or Phenytoin in Status Epilepticus in children) is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in the United Kingdom. Challenges to success include the need to immediate...

Kerry Woolfall, Louise Roper, Amy Humphreys, Mark D. Lyttle, Shrouk Messahel… in Trials (2019)

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Permissive versus restrictive temperature thresholds in critically ill children with fever and infection: a multicentre randomized clinical pilot trial

Fever improves pathogen control at a significant metabolic cost. No randomized clinical trials (RCT) have compared fever treatment thresholds in critically ill children. We performed a pilot RCT to determine w...

Mark J. Peters, Kerry Woolfall, Imran Khan, Elisabeth Deja… in Critical Care (2019)

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Patient and public involvement (PPI) in UK surgical trials: a survey and focus groups with stakeholders to identify practices, views, and experiences

Historically, patient and public involvement (PPI) in the design and conduct of surgical trials has been absent or minimal, but it is now routinely recommended and even required by some research funders. We ai...

Joanna C. Crocker, Keira Pratt-Boyden, Jenny Hislop, Sian Rees, Louise Locock… in Trials (2019)

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Non-invasive ventilation for the management of children with bronchiolitis (NOVEMBR): a feasibility study and core outcome set development protocol

Bronchiolitis is an acute lower respiratory infection which predominantly affects young children. Treatment for bronchiolitis is limited to supportive therapy. Nasal oxygen therapy is part of routine care, and...

Clare van Miert, Ricardo M. Fernandes, Helen Eccleson, Emma Bedson, Steven Lane… in Trials (2018)

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The “Petechiae in children” (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA – a study protocol

Children commonly present to Emergency Departments (ED) with a non-blanching rash in the context of a feverish illness. While most have a self-limiting viral illness, this combination of features potentially r...

Thomas Waterfield, Mark D. Lyttle, Derek Fairley, James Mckenna… in BMC Pediatrics (2018)

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Emergency treatment with levetiracetam or phenytoin in status epilepticus in children—the EcLiPSE study: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) is the most common life-threatening neurological emergency in childhood. These children are also at risk of significant morbidity, with acute and chronic impact on the famil...

Mark D. Lyttle, Carrol Gamble, Shrouk Messahel, Helen Hickey, Anand Iyer… in Trials (2017)

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A patient and public involvement (PPI) toolkit for meaningful and flexible involvement in clinical trials – a work in progress

Funders of research are increasingly requiring researchers to involve patients and the public in their research. Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research can potentially help researchers make sure that...

Heather J. Bagley, Hannah Short, Nicola L. Harman… in Research Involvement and Engagement (2016)

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Good practice principles for sharing individual participant data from publicly funded clinical trials

Catrin Tudur Smith, Carolyn Hopkins, Matt Sydes, Kerry Woolfall, Mike Clarke… in Trials (2015)

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Develo** a patient and public involvement intervention to enhance recruitment and retention in surgical trials (PIRRIST): study protocol

Joanna Crocker, Sian Rees, Louise Locock, Sophie Petit-Zeman, Alan Chant… in Trials (2015)

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Develo** a toolkit for patient and public involvement in a clinical trials unit

Heather Bagley, Nicola Harman, Kerry Woolfall, Bridget Young, Hannah Short… in Trials (2015)

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What are parents’ priorities when being invited to enter their child into a clinical trial and how far do they voice their priorities?

Bridget Young, Kerry Woolfall, Paula Williamson in Trials (2013)

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Practitioner views and experiences of deferred consent in paediatric and neonatal emergency care trials: the connect study

Kerry Woolfall, Lucy Frith, Carrol Gamble, Bridget Young in Trials (2013)

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How experience makes a difference: practitioners’ views on the use of deferred consent in paediatric and neonatal emergency care trials

In 2008 UK legislation was amended to enable the use of deferred consent for paediatric emergency care (EC) trials in recognition of the practical and ethical difficulties of obtaining prospective consent in a...

Kerry Woolfall, Lucy Frith, Carrol Gamble, Bridget Young in BMC Medical Ethics (2013)