Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (8)

Why are children with asthma bullied? A quantitative analysis of bullying risk factors in the Room to Breathe cohort (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Gilchrist. (2020, September). Why are children with asthma bullied? A quantitative analysis of bullying risk factors in the Room to Breathe cohort. Presented at ERS International Congress 2020

Background: Bullying and asthma are common challenges faced by children worldwide. It has been shown that children with chronic health conditions are at higher risk of being bullied, but this has not been explored in detail in asthma. Aims and Object... Read More about Why are children with asthma bullied? A quantitative analysis of bullying risk factors in the Room to Breathe cohort.

Practical Paediatric Prescribing, 1st Edition (2020)
Book
Carroll, W., Gilchrist, F. J., Mitchell, M., Sammons, H., & Srinivas, J. (2020). Practical Paediatric Prescribing, 1st Edition. Elsevier

Prescribing for children is problematic. Children are not small adults in terms of their physiology, and they cannot be subjects in clinical trials. This makes prescribing for them something of an art and a daunting one at that for trainees. Will Car... Read More about Practical Paediatric Prescribing, 1st Edition.

Lung clearance index in healthy volunteers, measured using a novel portable system with a closed circuit wash-in (2020)
Journal Article
Gilchrist. (2020). Lung clearance index in healthy volunteers, measured using a novel portable system with a closed circuit wash-in. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229300

INTRODUCTION: Lung clearance index (LCI) is a sensitive measure of early lung disease, but adoption into clinical practice has been slow. Challenges include the time taken to perform each test. We recently described a closed-circuit inert gas wash-in... Read More about Lung clearance index in healthy volunteers, measured using a novel portable system with a closed circuit wash-in.

Developing a core outcome set for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis. (2020)
Journal Article
Gilchrist. (2020). Developing a core outcome set for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis. ERJ Open Research, https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00344-2019

Background: Protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is a chronic endobrochial infection and a leading cause of chronic wet cough in children. There is an urgent need for a randomised controlled trial to investigate the optimal treatment but there is no... Read More about Developing a core outcome set for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis..