Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18001494›Full record

ArticleCritical care (London, England)2007

Improvements in the outcome of children with meningococcal disease.

Fauzia Paize, Stephen D Playfor

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Systems for Paediatric Sepsis: A Global Survey.The West Indian medical journal · 2014
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  2. Outcome research in meningococcal septic shock.Critical care (London, England) · 2008
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Fauzia Paize
Stephen D Playfor

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent years have seen a marked reduction in the mortality of children with meningococcal disease in paediatric intensive care units (PICU); the reasons for this improvement are multifactorial. The mortality rates for critically ill children overall have improved and reasons for this are probably increased centralisation of PICU services and that fewer critically ill children are now looked after on adult units. Specific treatment pathways for sepsis have improved with the publication of clinical guidelines for children and initiatives such as the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. There is a continuing need to focus on the care delivered to children before reaching PICU and to minimise the morbidity suffered by survivors of this disease.

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ChildComorbidityHumansIntensive Care Units, PediatricMeningococcal InfectionsOutcome and Process Assessment, Health CarePurpuraSepsisSurvival AnalysisUnited KingdomUnited States

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PMID18001494
PMCPMC2556760

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