Use of specialist retrieval teams to transport sick children is associated with reduce mortality

A study published Online First in The Lancet shows that use of specialist retrieval teams, rather than non-specialist teams, to transfer sick children to a hospital with a specialised paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is associated with reduced mortality. The findings support the policy of combining centralisation of intensive care services for children with the use of specialist retrieval teams, which has occurred in the UK and some other high income countries in recent years. The Article is by Dr Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Children's Acute Transport Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK, and colleagues.

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