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Expanding POPCORN to Pregnant Individual-Infant Health: Leveraging Existing Data for Pandemic Preparedness in Pregnancy and Infancy
Participating Sites and Research Team
Costanza Di Chara
Dr. Shaun Morris
British Columbia
BC Children’s Hospital (Vancouver)
Alberta
Alberta Children’s Hospital (Calgary)
Stollery Children’s Hospital (Edmonton)
Saskatchewan
Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital (Saskatoon)
Manitoba
The Children’s Hospital of Winnipeg (Winnipeg)
Ontario
Children's Hospital London Health Sciences Centre (London)
McMaster Children’s Hospital (Hamilton)
The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa)
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (Kingston)
Quebec
CHU Sainte-Justine (Montreal)
Montreal Children’s Hospital
CHU de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke)
CHU de Quebec l‘Universite de Laval (Quebec City)
Nova Scotia
IWK Health Centre (Halifax)
Newfoundland
Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre (St. John’s)
What Do We Want To Know?
We aim to identify early predictors of severe COVID-19 outcomes and longer-term impacts on quality of life in infants hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 infection, to support risk stratification and inform clinical management and follow-up.
How Are We Doing It?
We are leveraging existing POPCORN COVID-19 prospective cohort data to conduct predictive analyses of acute severity and long-term quality of life, using clinically relevant baseline and hospitalization features.
How Is The Project Going?
The statistical analysis plan has been finalized, including both acute and long-term predictive analyses, and we are now preparing for data extraction and implementation.
Who Can Participate?
The study relies on secondary data and health administrative data and does not involve patient recruitment.
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