Centre for Evidence Based Paediatrics, Gastroenterology & Nutrition

Director - A/Professor Elizabeth J Elliott
Associate Professor, Clinical School (Paediatrics and Child Health), The University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Senior Associate Editor of the text "Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health", BMJ Books, London (2004).

Scientific Director - Dr Diana Thomas
Co-ordinates CEBPGAN activities and conducts Cochrane systematic reviews.

Assistant Director - Dr Renata Kukuruzovic
Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne and a Staff Specialist at Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.

Research Librarian - Sunita Chauhans
Responsible for information management and maintaining the evidenced-based databases.

Summary

CEBPGAN (Centre for Evidence Based Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition) is a unique evidence-based medicine resource for clinicians involved in paediatric gastroenterology, nutrition and dietetics. To provide the best care for their patients, health professionals must find and assess the quality of an increasingly large amount of new information and apply it to their patients. CEBPGAN provides access to evidence-based information with its specialised databases, clinican support and courses. The centre is affiliated with both The Children's Hospital at Westmead and the Clinical School (Division of Paediatrics & Child Health), the University of Sydney.

Aims

Educate health professionals on the role of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the skills required to practise EBM through the running of workshops for paediatricians, gastroenterologists, dietitians and other interested clinicians.

Maintain specialised databases of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), systematic reviews, guidelines and critically appraised topics (CATs) in paediatric gastroenterology and nutrition Provide assistance to researchers (e.g. searching the literature).

Identify information needs and contentious management issues in clinical paediatric gastroenterology/nutrition.

Contribute summarised evidence to the literature (e.g. Cochrane reviews, clinical practice guidelines, contributions in EBM books and scientific publications)

Collaborative research between CEBPGAN and practising clinicians.

Contact Information

Centre for Evidence Based Paediatrics Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Clinical Sciences Building
Children's Hospital at Westmead
Locked Bag 4001
Westmead NSW 2145
AUSTRALIA

Phone: + 61 2 9845 3119
Fax: +61 2 9845 3082
Email: cebpgan@chw.edu.au
Web address: www.cebpgan.org

Some Recent Publications

Evidence Based Paediatrics and Child Health. Moyer V and Elliott EJ (Senior Assoc. Editors): BMJ Books, London, (2004) Kukuruzovic R, Elliott E, O'Loughlin E., Markowitz J. Non-surgical intervention for Eosinophilic oesophagitis. The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 2004. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Eduardo Salazar-Lindo, Phillip I. Tarr, David R. Brewster, Alessio Fasano, Elizabeth J. Elliott, Stephen Allen, Alan D. Phillips, Ian R. Sanderson. Intestinal Infections and Environmental Enteropathy. Working Group Report of the Second World Congress of Pediatric Gastro-enterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. 2004 Jun;39:S662-S669. [attached 17]

Elliott, E, Dalby-Payne J. Acute infectious diarrhoea and dehydration in children. Practice essentials – MJA practice essentials – paediatric. MJA. 2004 181(10):565-570.

Thomas DE, Kukuruzovic R, Martino B, Chauhan SS, Elliott EJ. Knowledge and use of evidence-based nutrition: a survey of paediatric dietitians. J Hum Nutr Dietet. 2003. 16 : 315-322