Projects
RART-Bronch
Status: Active
RART-Bronch Regional and Rural Translation – Bronchiolitis This large-scale interdisciplinary research program aims to drive implementation of substantial improvements to…
CASPER
Status: Active
Clinical Asthma Scoring in Paediatric Emergency Research A prospective observational study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of clinical observations and…
CHOICE UTI
Status: Active
Clinical efficacy of single dose (daily) IV antibiotics followed by 2 days oral antibiotics compared to 3 doses (daily) IV…
FEBCON-ED
Status: Active
A stepped- wedge cluster randomised controlled clinical trial of usual care vs regular antipyretics for children presenting with a FEBrile…
SPASMS
Status: Analysis
Study of Paediatric Appendicitis Scores and Management Strategies Abdominal pain is a common reason for children to attend emergency departments…
Paediatric ED mental health prospective observational study
Status: Active
Prospective Observational study of child and adolescent mental health presentations to Australian Emergency Departments. There is a growing number of…
SENTINEL Study
Status: Analysis
Sepsis Epidemiology in Australian and New Zealand Children Sepsis affects 25.2 million children per year and causes 3.4 million deaths,…
Bronchiolitis Sustainability
Status: Active
Sustaining improvements in the management of infants with bronchiolitis – a PREDICT study The PREDICT ‘Knowledge Translation in Australasian Paediatric…
Head Injury Co-design
Status: Active
Co-designing discharge communication strategies for paediatric mild head injuries Poor quality discharge communication negatively impacts patient safety and health outcomes,…
COVID 19 Audit
Status: Completed
Audit of COVID-19 Infections: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes at PREDICT Sites In a collaboration between emergency departments across the PREDICT…
SONIC
Status: Analysis
Study of Neck Injury Imaging in Children (SONIC): Improving the Diagnosis of Spinal Cord, Bone and Ligament Injuries Many children…
PEAChY-O and PEAChY-M Studies
Status: Active
Pharmacological Emergency management of Agitation in Children and Young people (PEAChY) Acute severe behavioural disturbance (ASBD) is any behaviour, including…
PROMPT BOLUS Study
Status: Active
PRagMatic Pediatric Trial of Balanced versus NOrmaL Saline FlUid in Sepsis (PRoMPT-BOLUS) Childhood sepsis is a global health issue: 25.2…
Mental Health Retrospective Study
Status: Completed
The Kids are not ok: Emergency Department management of acute mental health crises in children and young people - a…
Mental Health Delphi Study
Status: Completed
The Kids are not ok: A Delphi study to identify consensus research priorities and core outcome sets in paediatric emergency…
Million Minds
Status: Active
There has been an alarming increase in the number of children and adolescents presenting to emergency departments with concerns relating…
BI-PED Study
Status: Active
A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Epinephrine and Dexamethasone to Placebo in the Treatment of Infants with Bronchiolitis Bronchiolitis remains a…
PERN Pneumonia
Status: Analysis
Pneumonia is one of the most common serious bacterial infections in children worldwide, an important case of childhood morbidity and…
KidsTHRIVE
Status: Analysis
Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE) in Children requiring emergent intubation Success and quality of emergency intubation is dependent on…
APHIRST- Gap
Status: Completed
APHIRST- Gap Australian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study: Assessing the gap prior to implementation This multicenter study has two primary…
ASTHMA Retrospective
Status: Completed
Management of acute asthma in children - a PREDICT study The primary aim of this research project is to determine…
PARIS 2
Status: Completed
Nasal High Flow Therapy for Infants and Children with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure – a Randomised Controlled Trial This study…
Febrile Neutropaenia – PICNICC
Status: Completed
Infection, frequently presenting as fever and neutropenia (FN), is the most common complication of the treatment of childhood cancer and the…
Severe sepsis
Status: Completed
Severe sepsis is the final common pathway for many childhood infections, with mortality rates ranging from 6-30%. Part of the…
Delphi study
Status: Completed
Delphi study: Establishing the Research Priorities of Paediatric Emergency Medicine Clinicians in Australia and New Zealand. Resources for research are limited…
Bells Palsy RCT
Status: Completed
Bells Palsy – Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial It is unclear if children with Bell’s palsy should be treated with corticosteroids…
PARIS 1
Status: Completed
Bronchiolitis, a viral lung disease in infants, is the most common reason worldwide for infants <1 year of age to…
Heliox
Status: Completed
Research into practise: Heliox in childhood croup survey A Mater Children’s Hospital team completed a Cochrane review which showed that…
Pern bronchiolitis
Status: Completed
Pharmacotherapy Practice Patterns and Outcomes in Bronchiolitis in the Americas, Australia/New Zealand and Europe Although bronchiolitis has been a long-standing…
CRIB2
Status: Completed
Admitted patients with bronchiolitis at 7 Australian and New Zealand Centres: Retrospective analysis of epidemiological data The CRIB2 study is…
CONSEPT
Status: Completed
Convulsive Status Epilepticus Paediatric Trial (CONSEPT) This study aims to determine whether intravenous (IV) levetiracetam or IV phenytoin is the…
CT for head injury
Status: Completed
This research pools data from the past 10 years from Emergency Department (ED) and Medical Imaging databases at PREDICT sites…
PREDICT KT STUDY
Status: Completed
Knowledge Translation in Australasian Paediatric Acute Care Settings: a multi-centred, cluster-randomised controlled trial comparing a tailored, theory informed Knowledge Translation…
Bells Palsy – retrospective study
Status: Completed
It is unclear if children with Bell’s palsy should be treated with corticosteroids or not and consequently guidelines are vague…
APHIRST
Status: Completed
Australian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study This study aims to determine which of three existing clinical decision rules for the…