Rationale for and design of the "POSTA" study: Evaluation of neurocognitive outcomes after immediate adenotonsillectomy compared to watchful waiting in preschool children - Waters, Karen A.; Chawla, Jasneek; Harris, Margaret-Anne; Dakin, Carolyn; Heussler, Helen; Black, Robert; Cheng, Alan; Burns, Hannah; Kennedy, John D.; Lushington, Kurt (BMC pediatrics, 2017)
Keywords: Adenoidectomy; Age groups; Airway management; Australia - epidemiology; Behavior and development; Care and treatment; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Cognitive ability; Consent; Data entry; Diagnosis; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Grants; Health aspects; Humans; Hypoxia; Incidence; Internal Medicine; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Meetings; New Zealand - epidemiology; Patient outcomes; Pediatric research; Pediatrics; Polysomnography; Preschool children; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Recruitment; Revisions; Severity of Illness Index; Sleep; Sleep - physiology; Sleep apnea; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - epidemiology; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - physiopathology; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - surgery; Studies; Study Protocol; Surgery; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tonsillectomy; Traumatic brain injury; Watchful Waiting - methods; Australia; Pre-school; Intelligence; Tonsillectomy; Clinical trial; Adenotonsillectomy; Neurocognition; Child; Sleep disordered breathing