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Irish Child Health Database

17 August 2010
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An Irish Child Health Database has recently been developed and is available at: http://www.childrensdatabase.ie/Irish-child-health-database/.

This study systematically reviewed the peer review published literature on Irish Child Health from 2000 to 2008. Using a predefined set of keywords and search terms over 5,500 journal articles were identified for further examination. Screening reduced the number of articles reporting on aspects of research on children to 3,229, of which 2,152 were individual research studies. Findings were mapped according to a range of characteristics which demonstrated important features observed from the studied papers:

  1. The nature of the research - study type.
  2. The topic area of interest.
  3. The demographic characteristics of the studied population and their geographical spread.

The major findings of the study are presented with regard to the aetiological (causal) or descriptive nature of the work, the classifiable or themed health-related outcomes and the types of studied populations - hospital-based, school-based or community-based. Background, methods and findings are detailed in the study report: http://www.childrensdatabase.ie/Irish-child-health-database/study-report.pdf.