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  • The first step towards standardising paediatric terminology in Australia: A systematic review

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    Author(s)
    Clark, Ramona
    Locke, Melissa
    Bialocerkowski, andrea
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    Clark, Ramona L.
    Bialocerkowski, Andrea E.
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    2015
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    https://australian.physioQuestions: What paediatric terms and age definitions are used within the Australian health and health education context? Is Australian paediatric terminology comparable to existing US models? What is a suggested standard paediatric terminology framework for use within Australia? Design: Systematic review using a novel domain-specific hierarchical method to review grey literature and Australian health and health education websites published from 2009 to 2014. Participants: Australian health and health education webpages. Outcome Measures: Paediatric terms with an associated age range definition. ...
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    https://australian.physioQuestions: What paediatric terms and age definitions are used within the Australian health and health education context? Is Australian paediatric terminology comparable to existing US models? What is a suggested standard paediatric terminology framework for use within Australia? Design: Systematic review using a novel domain-specific hierarchical method to review grey literature and Australian health and health education websites published from 2009 to 2014. Participants: Australian health and health education webpages. Outcome Measures: Paediatric terms with an associated age range definition. Results: 1794 identified paediatric terms, reduced to 34 common terms, showed a Pareto language distribution (21% terms, accounted for 72% of cumulated terms). When combined with an age range, we identified 197 unique definitions. Paediatric terminology was inconsistent with semantic ambiguities, (19 terms with multiple definitions), and lexical ambiguities, (129 definitions with multiple terms). Age definitions were clustered into four statistically significant groups (F = 245.3, p < .001). Conclusion: No standard set of Australian paediatric terminology exists, with ambiguous terms and definitions identified within Australian health and health education websites. Ambiguities were resolved based on age definitions from a decision tree analysis combined with high frequency terms from the Pareto language distribution. Comparison to an existing US model suggests Australian paediatric terminology require broader age definitions. We recommend the following paediatric terms and definitions: “infant: 0 up to 1 year”, “early childhood: 1 up to 5 years”, “child: 5 up to 13 years”, “young person: 13 up to 22 years”.
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    Conference Title
    CONNECT Physiotherapy Conference 2015 (CONNECT 2015)
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    https://australian.physio/
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    © 2015 Australian Physiotherapy Society. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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    Paediatrics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/399388
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