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The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit: the first 20 years
1 British Paediatric Surveillance Unit of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK
2 Child Studies Unit, King’s College, Strand, London, UK
Correspondence to:
Richard Lynn, British Paediatric Surveillance Unit of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 50 Hallam Street, London W1W 6DE, UK; richard.lynn@rcpch.ac.uk
Accepted 23 April 2007
The BPSU has made a major contribution to paediatric medical epidemiology across the world
Keywords: rare; disorders; surveillance; paediatric
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
In July 2006 the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) completed its twentieth year of surveillance into uncommon childhood disorders. During this period the BPSU has provided a mechanism to respond to acute public health events in children and has emerged from its small base to become a major contributor to paediatric medical epidemiology across the world. All this has been achieved by an efficient system that permits the simultaneous running of multiple surveys via the circulation of a monthly report card. These achievements are the result of a willingness by UK and Irish paediatricians to work in collaboration for the betterment of child health across the whole of the British Isles.
This short article reviews the development of the unit and how studies undertaken have impacted on public health.
In the 1970s the then British Paediatric Association (BPA) was growing rapidly through consultant expansion and realising that its
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