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DrCherylBattersby

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neonatal Medicine
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3315 3047c.battersby Website

 
 
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Location

 

G.4.4.Chelsea and Westminster HospitalChelsea and Westminster Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Seaton:2024:10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986,
author = {Seaton, S and Battersby, C and David, PJ and Fenton, AC and Anderson, J and van, Hasselt TJH and Draper, ES},
doi = {10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986},
journal = {Archives of Disease in Childhood},
pages = {387--394},
title = {Characteristics of children requiring admission to neonatal care and paediatric intensive care before the age of 2 years in England and Wales: a data linkage study},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986},
volume = {109},
year = {2024}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Objective: To quantify the characteristics of children admitted to neonatal units (NNUs) and paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) before the age of 2 years.Design: A data linkage study of routinely collected data.Setting: National Health Service NNUs and PICUs in England and WalesPatients: Children born from 2013 to 2018.Interventions: None.Main outcome measure: Admission to PICU before the age of 2 years.Results: A total of 384 747 babies were admitted to an NNU and 4.8% (n=18 343) were also admitted to PICU before the age of 2 years. Approximately half of all children admitted to PICU under the age of 2 years born in the same time window (n=18 343/37 549) had previously been cared for in an NNU.The main reasons for first admission to PICU were cardiac (n=7138) and respiratory conditions (n=5386). Cardiac admissions were primarily from children born at term (n=5146), while respiratory admissions were primarily from children born preterm (<37 weeks’ gestational age, n=3550). A third of children admitted to PICU had more than one admission.Conclusions: Healthcare professionals caring for babies and children in NNU and PICU see some of the same children in the first 2 years of life. While some children are following established care pathways (eg, staged cardiac surgery), the small proportion of children needing NNU care subsequently requiring PICU care account for a large proportion of the total PICU population. These differences may affect perceptions of risk for this group of children between NNU and PICU teams.
AU  - Seaton,S
AU  - Battersby,C
AU  - David,PJ
AU  - Fenton,AC
AU  - Anderson,J
AU  - van,Hasselt TJH
AU  - Draper,ES
DO  - 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986
EP  - 394
PY  - 2024///
SN  - 0003-9888
SP  - 387
TI  - Characteristics of children requiring admission to neonatal care and paediatric intensive care before the age of 2 years in England and Wales: a data linkage study
T2  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986
UR  - https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/5/387
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/109321
VL  - 109
ER  -
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