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Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Getting Research Evidence into Practice and Generation of New Evidence

Hans Van Rostenberghe

Published 2014 in Frontiers in Pediatrics

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If a person who died in the early years of the twentieth century would come back today, he would not believe what he saw, heard, felt, tasted, and smelled. The twentieth century has been a century of so many discoveries and advances, unprecedented in any previous era. Also, the understanding, the prevention, the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in pediatrics have made major leaps forward in the previous century (1). Eradication of diseases through vaccines has become possible; proper hygienic measures have reduced spread of infections within hospitals tremendously, antibiotics have allowed us to cure diseases that before carried a grave prognosis (1). Evidence based medicine has allowed us to bust some myths of widely practiced treatments and conclusively proven the efficacy of others. Knowledge and technology have grown exponentially and are continuing to do so in the twenty-first century (1). While the exciting discoveries keep going on, a major challenge ahead of us lies in the effective processing, application, and implementation of all new discoveries of the past and current century. The grand challenge of this new field of Frontiers in Pediatrics will focus on two main areas: getting research evidence in practice and new exciting evidence that could impact clinical practice.

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