PAEDS（儿科主动增强疾病监测）

背景

这 PAEDS network (Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance network) 是 a hospital-based active surveillance system employing prospective case ascertainment for selected serious childhood conditions, particularly vaccine-preventable diseases and potential adverse events following immunisation (AEFI). PAEDS is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, with some grant funding for specific conditions.

Purpose

PAEDS data is used to better understand the conditions, inform policy and practice under the 国家免疫计划（NIP）, and enable rapid public health responses for certain conditions of public health importance. PAEDS enhances data available from other Australian surveillance systems by providing prospective, detailed clinical and laboratory information on children with selected conditions.

The current conditions under surveillance by the PAEDS network are:

• acute flaccid paralysis (condition causing paralysis and loss of tone in one or more limbs, which can be caused by the polio
• intussusception (rare type of bowel obstruction seen in infants)
• (chickenpox) and 带状疱疹 (shingles) requiring hospitalisation
• (whooping cough)
• acute childhood encephalitis (inflammation and/or infection of the brain)
• invasive meningococcal disease (severe bacterial sepsis and/or meningitis)
• invasive group A streptococcus (severe bacterial infection)
• 川崎病 (rare disease in which blood vessels throughout the body become inflamed)
• Gram-negative bloodstream infections (serious bacterial infections in the bloodstream)
• 新冠肺炎 (SARS-CoV-2)
• PIMS-TS (Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2)
• RSV (respiratory syncytial virus)
• social research (on attitudes towards and access to influenza vaccination in Australia).

Access

PAEDS consists of a network of clinicians and public health researchers in 8 tertiary paediatric hospitals across Australia. 

• The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic
• Monash Children’s Hospital, Clayton, Vic
• The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW
• The Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, NSW
• Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, SA
• Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, WA
• Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Qld
• The Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, NT.

For more information about the PAEDS group in Melbourne, please contact the study team via:
The Royal Children’s Hospital

• (03) 9345 5066
• [email protected]

Monash Children’s Hospital

• (03) 8572 3581

Investigators:

• Prof Nigel Crawford [email protected]
• 吉姆·巴特里教授 [email protected]

资源

• PAEDS network
• Latest PAEDS data on influenza
• Latest PAEDS data on COVID-19
• Latest PAEDS data on PIMS-TS
• Latests PAEDS data on RSV