XXIII European Congress of Perinatal Medicine
William McGuire, Professor of Child Health at HYMS and CRD, was an invited speaker at XXIII European Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Paris on 14th June. His presentations focussed on key design issues for pragmatic randomised controlled trials in perinatal care; and the role of systematic reviews in informing perinatal practice and research agendas.
Dr Lauren Young, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Child Health, who is attached to CRD for 3 years assessing the evidence of effect of different nutrient supplements on outcomes for very preterm infants (with Bill McGuire), gave an oral presentation presenting systematic review of ‘post-hospital discharge’ nutrition strategies which found evidence that current practice of giving infants expensive energy-enriched milk does not accelerate growth or development. Her findings were recently published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.