Despite advances in neonatal intensive care, babies admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) suffer from adverse outcomes. We aim to describe the longer-term respiratory infectious morbidity of infants discharged from NICU using state-wide population-based linked data in Western Australia. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• July 2023

Policy interventions to increase physical activity in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are effective in increasing physical activity among young children. However, a large proportion of ECEC services do not have nor implement a physical activity policy. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• April 2023

While there are many skin infections, reducing the burden of scabies and impetigo for remote living Aboriginal people, particularly children remains challenging. Aboriginal children living in remote communities have experienced the highest reported rate of impetigo in the world and are 15 times more likely to be admitted to hospital with a skin infection compared to non-Aboriginal children. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• February 2023

Epidemiologic data on invasive group C/G Streptococcus (iGCGS) infections are sparse internationally. Linked population-level hospital, pathology, and death data were used to describe the disease burden in Western Australia, Australia, during 2000-2018 compared with that of invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS, Streptococcus pyogenes) infections. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• November 2022

A high burden of bacterial skin infections is well documented in remote-living Indigenous children and young people in high-income countries. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• November 2022

Impetigo or skin sores are estimated to affect >162 million people worldwide. Detailed descriptions of the anatomical location of skin sores are lacking. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• October 2022

The aim of this study was to devise an evidence-based missing data rule for the Quality of Life Inventory-Disability (QI-Disability) questionnaire specifying how many missing items are permissible for domain and total scores to be calculated using simple imputation. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• August 2022

18 months of age infants receiving 10-valent pneumococcal Haemophilus influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine will have higher antibody levels ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• May 2020

The effectiveness and safety profile of antiseptics in the treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media is uncertain ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• January 2020

We argue that 'high functioning autism' is an inaccurate clinical descriptor when based solely on intelligence quotient demarcations ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• January 2020

Admissions for ARI were higher in Western Australia and displayed greater socioeconomic disparities than England and Scotland, where ARI rates are increasing ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• May 2019

There was evidence of extensive transmission of group A Streptococcus both within households and across the community ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• February 2016