Gina Anna Heather Trapp Gannett Croll GT AG HC BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BSc, MSc BHSc ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Research Assistant Program Coordinator 0410 589 374 6319 1464 08 6319 1469 Gina.Trapp@telethonkids.org.au ...

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We have demonstrated the potential use of Bayesian Networks in improving antibiotic selection for children with osteomyelitis ...

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• 2020
• July 2020

Pregnancy is a time of vulnerability for vitamin D insufficiency, and there is an emerging literature associating low levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D with... ...

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• 2014
• March 2014

Australian governments have used vaccine mandates to drive high uptake of routine childhood vaccines and adult Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and influenza vaccines. We sought to understand the attitudes of Western Australian parents regarding mandating COVID-19 vaccines for children, interviewing 44 parents of children aged up to 18 years between May and December 2021. Transcripts were analysed to ascertain parents' attitudes and sources of reasoning. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023

To compare quality of life (QOL) across diagnoses associated with intellectual disability, construct QOL profiles and evaluate membership by diagnostic group, function and comorbidities. ...

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• 2022
• October 2022

Nasopharyngeal colonisation with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is associated with development of infections including pneumonia and otitis media. The 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) uses NTHi Protein D (PD) as a carrier. Papua New Guinean children have exceptionally early and dense NTHi carriage, and high rates of NTHi-associated disease. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Participation in the preschool influenza vaccination program remains low with parents unconvinced of the benefits and safety of influenza vaccine ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

The introduction of a formal medical team to Hospital in the Home (HiTH) demonstrated a positive clinical impact on Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) patients' outcomes. ...

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• 2017
• August 2017

Using prospective data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we investigated vitamin D status and predictors of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin... ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

This paper reports some of the findings from the Western Australian Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Study, commenced in 2008, to evaluate a program providing... ...

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• 2014
• April 2014

This paper examines the use of a new antibiotic to treat diarrhoea cause by Cryptosporidium infection in Australian Indigenous children. ...

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• 2014
• June 2014

Helen Jenny Leonard Downs HM JA MBChB MPH BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD Principal Research Fellow Program Head, Development and Disability +61 419 956 946 08 6319 1763 helen.leonard@telethonkids.org.au Jenny.Downs@telethonkids.org.au Principal Research ...

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