2012 Scientific Report - Queensland Children's Medical Research ...

Years
2010-
2012
Grant
Agency
NHMRC
Chief Investigators Title Amount
AB Chang, PS Morris, K
Grimwood, T Sloots, A
White, C Maclennan
Randomised controlled trial of
Azithromycin to reduce the
morbidity of severe
bronchiolitis in Indigenous
infants
$1,407,075
2012-
2014
NHMRC
H Smith-Vaughan, A
Cheng, AB Chang, I
Mackay, PJ Torzillo, D
Wurzel
Identifying the microbiological
risk factors for acute lower
respiratory infection in
Indigenous children to inform
future intervention strategies
$ 479,734
Publications
Peer Reviewed Manuscripts
1. Goyal V, Masters IB, Chang AB. Interventions for primary (intrinsic) tracheomalacia in
children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Oct 17;10:CD005304.
2. Weir K, McMahon S, Chang AB. Restriction of oral intake of water for aspiration lung
disease in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Sep 12;9:CD005303.
3. Mulholland S, Gavranich JB, Gillies MB, Chang AB. Antibiotics for community-acquired
lower respiratory tract infections secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Sep 12;9:CD004875.
4. McCallum GB, Morris PS, Wilson CC, Versteegh LA, Ward LM, Chatfield MD, Chang AB.
Severity scoring systems: Are they internally valid, reliable and predictive of oxygen
use in children with acute bronchiolitis? Pediatr Pulmonol. 2012 Sep 4.[Epub ahead of
print]
5. Chang AB, Grimwood K, Robertson CF, Wilson AC, van Asperen PP, O'Grady KA, Sloots
TP, Torzillo PJ, Bailey EJ, McCallum GB, Masters IB, Byrnes CA, Chatfield MD, Buntain
HM, Mackay IM, Morris PS. Antibiotics for bronchiectasis exacerbations in children:
rationale and study protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Trials. 2012
Aug 31;13:156.
6. Carson KV, Brinn MP, Labiszewski NA, Peters M, Chang AB, Veale A, Esterman AJ,
Smith BJ. Interventions for tobacco use prevention in Indigenous youth. Cochrane
Database Syst Rev. 2012 Aug 15;8:CD009325.
7. Bonifant CM, Shevill E, Chang AB. Vitamin A supplementation for cystic fibrosis.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Aug 15;8:CD006751.
8. Valery PC, Morris PS, Grimwood K, Torzillo PJ, Byrnes CA, Masters IB, Bauert PA,
McCallum GB, Mobberly C, Chang AB. Azithromycin for Indigenous children with
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