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Quality improvement project assessing the feasibility of using canister weight to estimate remaining doses in a salbutamol pressurised metered-dose inhaler. (2024)
Journal Article
Beckett, R. S., Jagadish, A., Carroll, W., & Gilchrist, F. J. (in press). Quality improvement project assessing the feasibility of using canister weight to estimate remaining doses in a salbutamol pressurised metered-dose inhaler. Archives of Disease in Childhood, archdischild-2023-326678. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-326678

Outcome data from 15 years of cystic fibrosis newborn screening in a large UK region (2023)
Journal Article
Driscoll, S. J., Heinz, K., Goddard, P., Desai, M., & Gilchrist, F. J. (2024). Outcome data from 15 years of cystic fibrosis newborn screening in a large UK region. Archives of Disease in Childhood, https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325955

Background: The West Midlands Newborn Bloodspot Screening Laboratory is one of 16 in the UK and serves two tertiary paediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) centres (Staffordshire Children’s Hospital at Royal Stoke and Birmingham Children’s Hospital). CF newb... Read More about Outcome data from 15 years of cystic fibrosis newborn screening in a large UK region.

Midlands empyema in paediatrics: A UK multicentre retrospective case series review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rowbotham, N., Harris, A., Patel, H., Poulter, C., Vankuijk, H., Jain, K., Ramphul, M., Gilchrist, F., Davies, B., & Prayle, A. (2023, September). Midlands empyema in paediatrics: A UK multicentre retrospective case series review. Poster presented at ERS International Congress 2023 abstracts, Milan, IA, USA

914 Midlands empyema in paediatrics study (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rowbotham, N., Harris, A., Patel, H., Poulter, C., VanKuijk, H., Jain, K., Ramphul, M., Gilchrist, F., Davies, B., & Prayle, A. 914 Midlands empyema in paediatrics study. Presented at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Abstracts of the RCPCH Conference, Glasgow, 23–25 May 2023

ALPINE2: Efficacy and safety of 14-day vs 28-day inhaled aztreonam for Pa eradication in children with cystic fibrosis. (2023)
Journal Article
Gilchrist, F. J., Bui, S., Gartner, S., McColley, S. A., Tiddens, H., Ruiz, G., Stehling, F., Alani, M., Gurtovaya, O., Bresnik, M., Watkins, T. R., Frankovic, B., & Skov, M. (in press). ALPINE2: Efficacy and safety of 14-day vs 28-day inhaled aztreonam for Pa eradication in children with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 23(1), 80-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2023.06.008

Antibiotic eradication therapies recommended for newly isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) in people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) can be burdensome. ALPINE2 compared the efficacy and safety of a shortened 14-day course of aztreonam for inhalation sol... Read More about ALPINE2: Efficacy and safety of 14-day vs 28-day inhaled aztreonam for Pa eradication in children with cystic fibrosis..

The prevalence of children in the UK Cystic Fibrosis Registry on long term anti-Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) inhaled antibiotics who become culture negative for PA and a survey of practice for discontinuing treatment (2023)
Journal Article
Gilchrist, F., Davies, B., & Brodlie, M. (2023). The prevalence of children in the UK Cystic Fibrosis Registry on long term anti-Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) inhaled antibiotics who become culture negative for PA and a survey of practice for discontinuing treatment. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2023.05.007

Implementation of a primary care asthma management quality improvement programme across 68 general practice sites (2023)
Journal Article
Gilchrist, F. J., Carroll, W. D., Clayton, S., Price, D., Jarrold, I., Small, I., Sutton, E. J., & Lenney, W. (in press). Implementation of a primary care asthma management quality improvement programme across 68 general practice sites. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 33(1), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-023-00341-y

Despite national and international guidelines, asthma is frequently misdiagnosed, control is poor and unnecessary deaths are far too common. Large scale asthma management programme such as that undertaken in Finland, can improve asthma outcomes. A pr... Read More about Implementation of a primary care asthma management quality improvement programme across 68 general practice sites.

Symptom patterns and life with post-acute COVID-19 in children aged 8-17: a mixed methods studyprotocol. (2023)
Journal Article
Faux-Nightingale, A., Burton, C., Twohig, H., Bucknall, M., Carroll, W., Chew-Graham, C., Dunn, K., Gilchrist, F., Helliwell, T., Lawton, O., Lawton, S., Mallen, C., Saunders, B., Van Der Windt, D., & Welsh, V. (2023). Symptom patterns and life with post-acute COVID-19 in children aged 8-17: a mixed methods studyprotocol. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 7(2), Article BJGPO20220149. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2022.0149

Background: While there is a substantial body of knowledge about acute COVID-19, less is known about long-COVID, where symptoms continue beyond 4 weeks.

Aim: To describe longer-term effects of COVID-19 infection in children and young people (CYP)... Read More about Symptom patterns and life with post-acute COVID-19 in children aged 8-17: a mixed methods studyprotocol..

Protocol for CLASSIC PBB: comparison of lower airway sampling strategies in children with protracted bacterial bronchitis (2022)
Journal Article
Gilchrist, F., Aspey, M., Bowler, R., Brodlie, M., Desai, S., Harris, C., Hinton, E., Kulkarni, H., Ogbolosingha, A., Sinha, I., Solis-Trapala, I., Stock, J., & Carroll, W. D. (2022). Protocol for CLASSIC PBB: comparison of lower airway sampling strategies in children with protracted bacterial bronchitis. BMJ Paediatrics Open, e001722 - e001722. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001722

Background Protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is an endobronchial infection and a the most common cause of chronic wet cough in young children. It is treated with antibiotics, which can only be targeted if the causative organism is known. As most... Read More about Protocol for CLASSIC PBB: comparison of lower airway sampling strategies in children with protracted bacterial bronchitis.