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PROF COLIN ROBERTSON

Positions

Honorary, Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital

Publications

Selected publications

2013
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Effect of home mechanical in-exsufflation on hospitalisation and life-style in neuromuscular disease: A pilot study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 49:233-237. 2013
  - Respiratory function at age 8-9 after extremely low birthweight or preterm birth in Victoria in 1997. Pediatric Pulmonology. 48:449-455. 2013
2012
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A Multicenter Study on Chronic Cough in Children: Burden and Etiologies Based on a Standardized Management Pathway
    . Chest. 142:943-950. 2012
  - A phase I study of daily treatment with a ceramide-dominant triple lipid mixture commencing in neonates
    . BMC Dermatology. 12. 2012
  - Antibiotics for bronchiectasis exacerbations in children: rationale and study protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Trials. 13. 2012
  - Clinical predictors and outcome of hypoxaemia among under-five diarrhoeal children with or without pneumonia in an urban hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 106-111. 2012
  - Contact investigation of children exposed to tuberculosis in South East Asia: a systematic review. Journal of Tropical Medicine. 2012. 2012
  - Genome-Wide Association Studies of Asthma in Population-Based Cohorts Confirm Known and Suggested Loci and Identify an Additional Association near HLA. PLoS One. 7. 2012
  - Progression of early structural lung disease in young children with cystic fibrosis assessed using CT. Thorax. 67:509-516. 2012
  - The challenges of replicating the methodology between Phases I and III of the ISAAC programme. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 16:687-693. 2012
- Journal Articles Unrefereed
  - International consensus on (ICON) pediatric asthma. Allergy. 67:976-979. 2012
2011
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Co-morbidity: exploring the clinical overlap between pneumonia and diarrhoea in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Annals of Tropical Paediatrics. 31:311-319. 2011
  - Do Sex and Atopy Influence Cough Outcome Measurements in Children?. Chest. 140:324-330. 2011
  - Identification of IL6R and chromosome 11q13.5 as risk loci for asthma. The Lancet. 378:1006-1014. 2011
  - Infection, Inflammation, and Lung Function Decline in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 184:75-81. 2011
  - Intermittent or daily montelukast versus placebo for episodic asthma in children. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 106:518-526. 2011
  - Outcomes following admission to intensive care for asthma. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition. 96:729-734. 2011
  - The role of parent-initiated oral corticosteroids in preschool wheeze and school-aged asthma. Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 11:187-191. 2011
- Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
  - Evidence-based asthma management in children - what's new. Medical Journal of Australia. 194:383-384. 2011
2010
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A home respiratory support programme for children by parents and layperson carers. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 46:57-62. 2010
  - Can a management pathway for chronic cough in children improve clinical outcomes: protocol for a multicentre evaluation. Trials. 11. 2010
  - Do small group workshops and locally adapted guidelines improve asthma patients' health outcomes? A cluster randomized controlled trial. Family Practice. 27:246-254. 2010
  - Lung Function in Children With Repaired Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula Using the Forced Oscillation Technique. Pediatric Pulmonology. 45:1057-1063. 2010
  - Paracetamol use in early life and asthma: prospective birth cohort study. British Medical Journal. 341. 2010
  - Parent initiated prednisolone for acute asthma in children of school age: randomised controlled crossover trial. British Medical Journal. 340. 2010
2009
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Bronchiectasis in infants and preschool children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis after newborn screening. Journal of Pediatrics. 155:623-628. 2009
  - Lung disease at diagnosis in infants with cystic fibrosis detected by newborn screening. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 180:146-152. 2009
2008
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Lung Function in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosed by Newborn Screening. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 178:1238-1244. 2008
  - Safety of bronchoalveolar lavage in young children with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric Pulmonology. 43:965-972. 2008
  - Sleep-related breathing disorders in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Chest. 133:1388-1396. 2008
2007
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Asthma among school children in the Barwon region of Victoria. Medical Journal of Australia. 187:221-224. 2007
  - Novel Neutrophil-Derived Proteins in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Indicate an Exaggerated Inflammatory Response in Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients. Clinical Chemistry. 53:1782-1791. 2007
  - Parent-initiated oral corticosteroid therapy for acute asthma: A survey of current practice. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 43:443-445. 2007
  - Parent-initiated oral corticosteroid therapy for intermittent wheezing illnesses in children: Systematic review. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 43:438-442. 2007
  - Polyflex^TM stenting of tracheomalacia after surgery for congential tacheal stenosis. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 71:159-163. 2007
  - Short-course Montelukast for Intermittent Asthma in Children - a randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 175:323-329. 2007
2006
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Clinical scoring systems in Cystic Fibrosis. Pediatric Pulmonology. 41:602-617. 2006
  - Parent-initiated oral corticosteroid therapy for intermittent wheezing illnesses in children (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1-16. 2006
- Journal Articles Unrefereed
  - Case Reports. Tracheal Ulceration and Obstruction Associated with Flexible Bivona Tracheostomy Tubes. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 34:495-497. 2006
2005
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Impact of disease severity on quality of life in adults with asthma.. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. 117:462-467. 2005
  - Intussusceptions arising from two different sites in a child with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric Pulmonology. 40:358-361. 2005
  - Lower airway inflammation in infants with cystic fibrosis detected by newborn screening. Pediatric Pulmonology. 40:500-510. 2005
  - Robust estimation of experimentwise P values applied to a genome scan of multiple asthma traits identifies a new region of significant linkage on chromosome 20q13. American Journal of Human Genetics. 77:1075-1085. 2005
- Journal Articles Unrefereed Letters or Notes
  - Ventilation inhomogeneities in patients with cystic fibrosis: inappropriate reference data and errors?. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 172:645-645. 2005
- Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
  - Extending the limits of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: lung rest for a child with non-specific interstitial pneumonia. Intensive Care Medicine. 31:993-996. 2005
2004
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Associations of the IL12B promoter polymorphism in longitudinal data from asthmatic patients 7 to 42 years of age. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 113:475-481. 2004
  - Changing prevalence of asthma in Melbourne schoolchildren: have we reached the peak?. Medical Journal of Australia. 180:273-276. 2004
  - Height prediction from ulna length.. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 46:475-480. 2004
  - Implementation of evidence based guidelines for paediatric asthma management in a teaching hospital . Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition. 89:660-664. 2004
2003
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Effect of detergent-coated versus non-coated spacers on bronchodilator response in children with asthma.. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 39:270-273. 2003
  - Prediction of childhood pulmonary function using ulna length.. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 168:804-809. 2003
  - Relation between measurements of cough severity.. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition. 88:57-60. 2003
  - Repeatability of bronchial responsiveness to mannitol dry powder in children with asthma.. Pediatric Pulmonology. 36:490-494. 2003
- Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
  - Longitudinal study of childhood wheezy bronchitis and asthma: outcome at age 42.. British Medical Journal. 326:422-423. 2003
2002
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Asthma in children: Gaps between current management and best practice. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 38:284-289. 2002
  - Early airway infection, inflammation, and lung function in cystic fibrosis. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition. 87:306-311. 2002
2001
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Clinical outcome after early Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis. . Journal of Pediatrics. 138:699-704. 2001
  - Diet and asthma, allergic rhinconjunctivitis and atopic eczema symptom prevalence: an ecological analysis of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) data. European Respiratory Journal. 17:436-443. 2001
  - Frequency and perception of cough severity. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 37:142-145. 2001
  - Interlobar differences in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from children with cystic fibrosis. European Respiratory Journal. 17:281-286. 2001
  - Intron-8 polythymidine sequence in Australasian individuals with CF mutations R117H and R117C. . European Respiratory Journal. 17:1195-1200. 2001
  - Successful implementation of spacer treatment guideline for acute asthma. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition. 84:142-146. 2001
  - Updating asthma management: The process of change. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. 15:20-23. 2001
- Conference Papers Unrefereed
  - Melbourne study of childhood asthma: allergen-specific cytokine responses according to clinical outcome at 42 years. S219-S219. 2001

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