{"id":2413,"date":"2015-03-26T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:52:15","slug":"child-health-unit-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2015\/03\/26\/child-health-unit-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Health Unit update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study lead by Dr Sonia Saxena\u00a0 showed fewer complications and readmissions at specialist centres compared with District General hospitals for children having appendectomy: <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/annalsofsurgery\/Abstract\/publishahead\/Pediatric_Emergency_Appendectomy_and_30_Day.97582.aspx\">Annals of Surgery<\/a>. Listen to Sonia talk about this research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imedia\/content\/view\/4621\/appendectomy-better-outcomes-at-specialist-centres-\">Imperial Podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Koshy has published a paper in BMJ open showing that tonsillectomy operations for children who have not had recurrent throat infections provide very little benefit: <a href=\"http:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/5\/2\/e006686.long\">BMJ Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We published a paper in that showed a halving in 5 year perianal surgery rates among patients with Crohns Disease who had sustained treatment (over 18 months) with immunosuppressant drugs: <a href=\"http:\/\/ovidsp.tx.ovid.com\/sp-3.14.0b\/ovidweb.cgi?QS2=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\">Inflammatory Bowel Diseases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/s.saxena\">Dr Sonia Saxena MBBS MSc MD FRCGP<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Clinical Reader in Primary Care<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Department of Primary Care and Public Health<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study lead by Dr Sonia Saxena\u00a0 showed fewer complications and readmissions at specialist centres compared with District General hospitals for children having appendectomy: Annals of Surgery. Listen to Sonia talk about this research on the Imperial Podcast. Liz Koshy has published a paper in BMJ open showing that tonsillectomy operations for children who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":2525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14877,211,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clinical-2","category-public-health","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}