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PROF FRANK SHANN



Contact Details

Organization: Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Institution not known
Doctor of Medicine Institution not known

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Royal Australasian College of Physicians Member 10-Aug-2004

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Liposomal amphotericin B trial marred by conclusions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 667-8
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Warfare and the state of the world's children
    Year: 2006
    Book: Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity
    Publisher: Springer(New York)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Non-specific effects of vaccination - Vaccines have non-specific (heterologous) effects.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 330
    Issue: 7495
    Page numbers: 844-844
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Outcome-based clinical indicators for intensive care medicine
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 303
    Publisher: Australian Society of Anaesthetists(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A randomised, controlled trial of once daily and mulit-dose daily gentamicin in yourn Kenyan infants
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood
    Volume: 89
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 665-669
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Heterologous immunity and the nonspecific effects of vaccines a major medical advance?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 555-558
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Drug Doses
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Collective(Melbourne)
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  • Paediatric Intensive Care Guidelines
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Collective(Melbourne)
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  • Paediatric Intensive Care Guidelines
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Collective(Melbourne)
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  • Paediatrics for doctors in Papua New Guinea. A guide for doctors providing health services for children.
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: PNG Department of Health(Port Moresby)
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Book Chapters

  • Fluid and electrolyte therapy
    Year: 2003
    Book: Paediatric Handbook
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Carlton South)
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Journal Articles

  • Antibiotic treatment for bacterial meningitis in children in developing countries.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 233-253
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing
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  • Bacterial meningitis in developing countries
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 361
    Issue: May 3
    Page numbers: 1564
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • Evidence on the use of paracetamol in febrile children.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 367-372
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Drugs used in paediatrics
    Year: 2002
    Book: Practical Paediatrics
    Publisher: Churchill Livingstone(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Systematic review of rheumatic heart disease prevalence in children in developing countries: The role of environmental factors
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 229-234
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Drug Doses
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Collective(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • A randomized trial of very early decompressive craniectomy in children with traumatic brain injury and sustained intracranial hypertension
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Childs Nervous System
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 154-162
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Bacterial Pneumonia: commoner than perceived
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 357
    Issue: 9274
    Page numbers: 2070-2072
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • Calibratrion of the paediatric index of mortality in UK paediatric intensive care units
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 125-128
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Effect of reusing suction catheters on the occurance of pneumonia in children
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Heart & Lung
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 225-233
    Publisher: Mosby(Missouri)
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  • Few rich countries attain UN's aid and target for poor countries
    Year: 2001
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 323
    Issue: 7313
    Page numbers: 634-635
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Nasopharyngeal oxygen therapy produces positive end-expiratory pressure in infants
    Year: 2001
    Journal: European Journal of Pediatrics
    Volume: 160
    Page numbers: 556-560
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • uses of error: the wrong research costs lives
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 357
    Issue: 9269
    Page numbers: 1691
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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