The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study: A 10-year follow-up. A report on the medical, social, behavioural and educational outcomes after serious, acute, neaurological illness in early childhood
Nicola Madge, Judith Diamond, David Miller, Euan Ross, Chris McManus, Jane Wadsworth, William Yule, and with the assistance of Beryl Frost (1993)
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Supplement No. 68. Mac Keith Press in association with Cambridge University Press.
The main aims of the present study were to look at the survival, development and capabilities of children who had had severe acute neurological illnesses in infancy, to contrast outcomes for different diagnostic groups, and to compare all of the above with matched controls. To pursue these aims we followed up the children included in the National Child Encephalopathy Study some ten years earlier. With the co-operation of parents, health and education authorities, doctors, teachers and others, we were able to trace more than 80 per cent of the children and we were able to collect further information on most of them.
