Publications by authors named "Diane Emery"
Aim: A retrospective Auckland-wide (total population approximately 1.4 million) study of hospital admissions from 2007 to 2015 was conducted to assess trends in admissions for acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) in children aged 0-14 years.
Methods: International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD10) discharge codes were used to identify potential cases of APSGN, and electronic clinical records and laboratory data were compared with established case definitions for definite or probable APSGN.
Background: In children, community-acquired pneumonia is a frequent cause of emergency department (ED) presentation and hospital admission. Quality primary care may prevent some of these hospital visits.
Aims: The aim of this study was to identify primary care factors associated with ED presentation and hospital admission of preschool-aged children with community-acquired pneumonia.
Risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia in pre-school-aged children.
J Paediatr Child Health
May 2012
Aim: To identify risk factors for children developing and being hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia.
Methods: Children <5 years old residing in urban Auckland, New Zealand were enrolled from 2002 to 2004. To assess the risk of developing pneumonia, children hospitalised with pneumonia (n= 289) plus children with pneumonia discharged from the Emergency Department (n= 139) were compared with a random community sample of children without pneumonia (n= 351).
Aims: To investigate the effect of maternal iron stores on the fetus in Maori and non-Maori neonates.
Methods: Paired samples of maternal venous and fetal cord blood were compared for haemoglobin, iron, and ferritin. Women were included who had no medical complications and were delivering by elective caesarian section at Hastings Memorial Hospital.