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ADC Podcast
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Episodes
Thursday Apr 10, 2014
Thursday Apr 10, 2014
In this month's Archimedes podcast, section editor Bob Phillips discusses the ADC blog series on the basics of evidence based medicine http://goo.gl/CQM4P8 and two questions regarding diagnostic cerebral catheterisation http://goo.gl/ulmSr6 and measuring serum sodium from capilliary blood samples http://goo.gl/uAFhKH. There's also a bonus treat of a haematological top tip.
Tuesday Apr 08, 2014
Tuesday Apr 08, 2014
Research understanding the lives of children with disabilities in low-income and middle-income countries has predominantly focused on prevalence studies with little progress on evidence-based service development. At the same time, global attention in child health has shifted from child survival strategies to those that bring child survival and development together. Aisha Yousafzai, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, has led a review in May's ADC which examines whether intervention research can be better aligned with current theoretical constructs of disability and international guidelines that advocate for the realisation of rights for children with disabilities and inclusive early childhood development. ADC global health editor Nick Brown asks her about the conclusions.Read the full paper:Moving beyond prevalence studies: screening and interventions for children with disabilities in low-income and middle-income countries http://goo.gl/ISp259
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
Ronny Cheung, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Claire Lemer, Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, look at the role of data in improving the quality of care for children and young people: how they can help to identify a problem, guide design of solutions, and evaluate changes in practice.
Drs Lemer and Cheung introduce some principles for measurement in the field of quality improvement, and discuss how to use and present data to maximise their value and impact in quality improvement initiatives.
Read the full article:
Equipped: quality improvement: Using data to improve care http://goo.gl/ZOmp6u
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
It is vital to involve children, young people and families in the design, delivery and improvement of their care. Their involvement can range from individuals giving feedback, such as patient stories, to collaborative work including patient groups and communities helping to develop and commission services.In this podcast Sophie Robertson, Paediatric Department, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Kate Pryde, Department of Child Health, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Kath Evans, Head of Patient Experience - Maternity, Newborn, Children and Young People, NHS England, discuss the methods of involving patients in care, and how this can lead to meaningful participation and improvement of services.Read their ADC article on this topic:Patient involvement in quality improvement: is it time we let children, young people and families take the lead? http://goo.gl/ETgGW1
Thursday Mar 27, 2014
Thursday Mar 27, 2014
Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discusses April's Archimedes questions.
For the articles, see this month's edition of the journal: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/4.toc
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Editor Mark Beattie discusses some choice papers from April's ADC.For all the content in this edition, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/4.toc
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Friday Mar 14, 2014
Editor Mark Beattie talks through his highlights from the March edition.For all the content, see: http://goo.gl/qgrA4V
Thursday Mar 06, 2014
Thursday Mar 06, 2014
Professor Neil Marlow is the lead author on the EPIcure2 paper published In ADC Fetal and Neonatal. He has led several large studies of the outcome of preterm delivery, including the first EPIcure study which was influential in shaping aspects of current national policy. Neil has been Professor of Neonatal Medicine at University College, London, since 2008, having previously been the chair of Neonatal Medicine in Nottingham, and he is a past President of the European Society for Paediatric Research. Read the full paper, open access, here: http://goo.gl/NAd6gdThe previous publications from EPIcure2 to which he refers in the podcast are BMJ 2012;345:e7961 and BMJ 2012;345:e7976.
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014
There is a long standing perception that treating cancer in children in low and middle income countries is not cost effective and, as a result, there has been less investment in this area than many higher profile counterparts such as HIV and malaria.In an innovative and compelling paper, Nickhill Bhakta, Fellow in Haematology/Oncology at St Jude's Lutheran children's hospital, Tennessee, debunks this myth. Basing his model on two common cancers he elegantly demonstrates that the majority of children can easily be treated well within the cost effective criteria set by the WHO. In this podcast, he tells ADC Global Health editor Nick Brown that rethinking the approach to this group of largely curable diseases is overdue.Read the full paper: http://bit.ly/1dQljHo
Tuesday Jan 28, 2014
Tuesday Jan 28, 2014
Editor Mark Beattie takes us through his picks from January's ADC.All the content from the issue is available here: adc.bmj.com/content/99/2.toc