Journal article
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: A Decade of Global Research Cooperation in Pediatric Emergency Care
T Klassen, SR Dalziel, FE Babl, J Benito, S Bressan, J Chamberlain, TP Chang, SB Freedman, G Kohn-Loncarica, MD Lyttle, S Mintegi, RD Mistry, LE Nigrovic, R Oostenbrink, AC Plint, P Rino, D Roland, G Van De Mosselaer, N Kuppermann
Pediatric Emergency Care | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Published : 2021
Abstract
Objectives The Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) was launched in 2009 with the intent for existing national and regional research networks in pediatric emergency care to organize globally for the conduct of collaborative research across networks. Methods The Pediatric Emergency Research Network has grown from 5- to 8-member networks over the past decade. With an executive committee comprising representatives from all member networks, PERN plays a supportive and collaborative rather than governing role. The full impact of PERN's facilitation of international collaborative research, although somewhat difficult to quantify empirically, can be measured indirectly by the observed growth..
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Funding Acknowledgements
T.K.'s time was funded in part by the Canada Research Chairs Program. S.R.D.'s time was funded in part by Cure Kids New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand. F.E.B.'s time was part funded by an National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellowship (GNT1124466), Canberra, Australia and by the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation. N.K.'s time was funded in part by the Emergency Medical Services for Children Network Development Demonstration Program of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration. For the remaining authors, none were declared.