News headlines about the large number of life-threatening cases of the flu in Western Australia this winter have been hard to miss - find out what you can do to protect your family. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2019
• July

Pneumonia remains a leading cause of hospitalization and death among young children worldwide, and the diagnostic challenge of differentiating bacterial from non-bacterial pneumonia is the main driver of antibiotic use for treating pneumonia in children. Causal Bayesian networks (BNs) serve as powerful tools for this problem as they provide clear maps of probabilistic relationships between variables and produce results in an explainable way by incorporating both domain expert knowledge and numerical data. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• March 2023

Asthma is among the commonest noncommunicable diseases of childhood and often occurs with other atopic comorbidities. A previous case-control study found evidence that compared to children who received acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines in early infancy, children who received one or more doses of whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccine had lower risk of developing IgE-mediated food allergy. We hypothesized that wP vaccination in early infancy might protect against atopic asthma in childhood.  ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• October 2023

A first-of-its-kind national study looking at the optimal COVID-19 vaccination strategies for children and adolescents is set to begin at Perth’s Telethon Kids Institute thanks to a $3.8 million funding injection from the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF). ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2022
• August

Surgical intervention is an important treatment modality for advanced rheumatic heart disease (RHD). This study aimed to describe patient characteristics and outcomes from cardiac surgery for RHD in patients referred to the only tertiary paediatric hospital in Western Australia.  ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• October 2023

New research investigating the devastating impact of the 2017 flu season by PAEDS-FluCAN, a national collaboration observing influenza in children, confirmed it was time to take action after thousands of children were hospitalised with the virus last year. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2018
• August

Adequate resources are needed for maintenance of data quality in acute rheumatic fever/ rheumatic heart disease registers to ensure provision of evidence-based care and accurate assessment of program impact. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• May 2017

Rheumatic fever (RF) prevention, control and surveillance are increasingly important priorities in New Zealand (NZ) and Australia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• June 2015

We analyzed the formal consultations seen by the infectious diseases service over a 14-year period at one of the largest pediatric hospitals in Australia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2014
• April 2014

Cross-sectional observational study across ten primary schools in Fiji in school children aged 5-14 years. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2014
• March 2014