About the Group
The International Child Health Review Collaboration is a
multicentre project to deliver the evidence basis behind World Health
Organisation guidelines for use by paediatric doctors, nurses and other
child health workers in Developing
Countries.
The aim of the project is to produce concise and
reproducible systematic reviews of the guidance contained in the
publication:
WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the
Management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources
The collaboration is between:
- Centre for
International Child Health, Melbourne University, Australia
- University
of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Kenya
Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
- Aga
Khan University, Pakistan
- Institute
of Child Health Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
- University
of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
- Capital
Institute of Paediatrics, Beijing
- University
of Western Australia,
Australia
- Instituto de
Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira, Brazil
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The project includes systematic reviews on a number of
important
topics, incorporating diagnosis, therapeutics and surgical questions,
outlining the evidence that exists on the subject and providing rapidly
and easily accessible information for use in limited
resource settings.
The World Health Organisation Child and
Adolescent
Health and Development website is accessible here: http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/
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