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2016 guideline

Formal feedback was received from:

  • Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
  • The Australian Paediatric Society
  • The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • South Island Alliance Child Health Service
  • Children’s Healthcare Australasia
  • Australian College of Emergency Nursing Ltd.
  • The Australian College of Children and Young People’s Nurses
  • College of Child and Youth Nurses New Zealand
  • College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand
  • Family Advisory Committee Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
  • New South Wales Office of Kids and Families
  • New South Wales Paediatric Clinical Nurse Consultant Group
  • Paediatric Department Christchurch Hospital
  • Paediatric Respiratory Department Starship Children’s Health
  • Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care

2025 guideline

Pending