RT Journal
A1 Zylke JW, Rivara FP, Bauchner H
T1 Challenges to excellence in child health research: Call for papers
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD September 12
VO 308
IS 10
SP 1040
OP 1041
DO 10.1001/2012.jama.10982
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.10982
AB 
At its best, child health research stands as a model for the advancement of knowledge to improve health and health care. More than 200 hospitals in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand participate in the National Cancer Institute–supported Children's Oncology Group,1 and more than 90% of children diagnosed with cancer in the United States are treated at one of the participating hospitals. Discoveries from this research network have transformed the 5-year survival rate for all childhood cancers combined from virtually 0% to 80% and have led to far more rapid advancement in treatment of childhood cancer than adult cancer. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development supports the Neonatal Research Network, a national multicenter collaborative that has provided important advances in neonatal care, with current survival of infants as small as 24 weeks' gestation.2 Research by the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) has placed pediatric emergency care on a firmer evidence base.3