Hall, Nigel (2017) Necrotising enterocolitis: better data, still many questions. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2 (1), 6-7. (doi:10.1016/S2468-1253(16)30158-3).
Abstract
In The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Cheryl Battersby and colleagues start to fill in some of these gaps in knowledge by providing an up-to-date epidemiological picture of severe necrotising enterocolitis among babies born before a gestational age of 32 weeks in England over a 2-year period. The importance of this study is in its completeness, with data captured from 118,073 babies admitted to all 163 neonatal units in England. Consequently, reliable data are now available that will help to inform research and service delivery. As an aside, this study also serves as an excellent example of how the (electronic) capture of routinely collected data can be used effectively and efficiently for research purposes, and is a model that should undoubtedly be replicated.
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