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How to use this database.

• Method 1- uses a free natural language approach.

  After choosing the object of the search – by ticking title, abstract, aims and objective, or author - enter a term, word or name in the ‘Search’ box to return references answering your research question.

• Method 2 - utilises key words.

  Those key words assigned from thesauruses of controlled vocabulary by the trained coders of international bibliographic databases.
  The controlled vocabularies key word are listed alphanumerically under 'Bibliographic database keywords' .
  Use the drop down menu to identity which 'key words' you are interested in to return references to answer your research question.

• Method 3 - is based on the indexing system

  developed by the researchers who compiled this database.
  It adopts a thematic approach to mapping Irish child health research. The themed areas represent outcomes mapped to the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) or one of 23 other health-related themed outcomes. Themes are defined in Tables 5 to 7 (of the study report).
  Use the alphabetic drop down menu under ‘ICD-10 or themed health-related outcomes’ to identity which themed areas you are interested in to select references to answer your research question.

• Method 4 – allows papers to be searched by Study type.

  Indexing by study type offers a valuable insight into understanding the population impact of the topic of interest. More than 20 study types were identified across the 2,152 study papers. These are defined in Table 3 (of the study report). Within 'Study type' papers are further stratification by geographical region (Table 49), topic area of interest and study aims and objectives.
  Click on 'Study type' to select the type of study of interest, progressively select sub-categories by topic area or other sub-classification of interest to answer your research question.

The complete background, methods and findings from this mapping exercise are detailed in the study report.

Nervous System Diseases/ epidemiology

Your search returns 2 documents

• 1.   Neurologic and developmental disability after extremely preterm birth. EPICure Study Group

  The aim of this study was to examine neurologic and developmental disability in children who were born at 25 or fewer completed weeks of gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland

  

  Abstract:

  BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Small studies show that many children born as extremely preterm infants have neurologic and developmental disabilities. We evaluated all children who were born at 25 or fewer completed weeks of gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland from March through December 1995 at the time when they reached a median age of 30 months. Each child underwent a formal more...

  International Classification:

  Premature - children

  Categories:

  Neurologic and developmental disability; preterm births

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

  N Engl J Med, Vol: 343 Page: 378-84 August 2000
  N. S. Wood; N. Marlow; K. Costeloe; A. T. Gibson; A. R. Wilkinson

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• 2.   Neurologic and developmental disability at six years of age after extremely preterm birth

  The aim of the study was to compare neurologic and developmental disability at six years of age in infants born extremely preterm

  

  Abstract:

  BACKGROUND: Birth before 26 weeks of gestation is associated with a high prevalence of neurologic and developmental disabilities in the infant during the first two years of life. METHODS: We studied at the time of early school age children who had been born at 25 or fewer completed weeks of gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1995. Each child had been evaluated at 30 months more...

  International Classification:

  Premature - infants

  Categories:

  neurologic and developmental disability

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

  N Engl J Med, Vol: 352 Page: 9-19 January 2005
  N. Marlow; D. Wolke; M. A. Bracewell; M. Samara

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