Azzopardi, D;
Strohm, B;
Linsell, L;
Hobson, A;
Juszczak, E;
Kurinczuk, JJ;
Brocklehurst, P;
... UK TOBY Cooling Register; + view all
(2012)
Implementation and conduct of therapeutic hypothermia for perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy in the UK--analysis of national data.
PLoS One
, 7
(6)
, Article e38504. 10.1371/journal.pone.0038504.
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Abstract
Delay in implementing new treatments into clinical practice results in considerable health and economic opportunity costs. Data from the UK TOBY Cooling Register provides the opportunity to examine how one new effective therapy for newborn infants suspected of suffering asphyxial encephalopathy--therapeutic hypothermia- was implemented in the UK.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Implementation and conduct of therapeutic hypothermia for perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy in the UK--analysis of national data. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0038504 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038504 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | PMCID: PMC3374836 © 2012 Azzopardi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. No current external funding sources for this study. |
| Keywords: | Asphyxia Neonatorum, Female, Great Britain, Humans, Hypothermia, Induced, Infant, Newborn |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1352057 |
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