Led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, United States, and involving a global group of acute paediatric critical illness experts, the study’s findings can be used by health systems across the region to identify critically ill children in clinical work or research settings.
Moving forward, we need to test and validate this proposed definition in a variety of settings to investigate its robustness,” said Dr Lee on next steps for this study. “I am hopeful that this definition will help standardise the recruitment and study of critically ill patients across various clinical setups."
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