biostudies-literaturevan Hasselt TJMedical Research CouncilNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR)National Institute for Health and Care Research369-376https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12229064biostudies-literatureUnknown110(4)<h4>Objective</h4>Following very preterm birth, some children require ongoing intensive care after the neonatal period and transition directly from neonatal units (NNUs) to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) around term-corrected age.We aimed to understand, at a national level, characteristics and outcomes of children born very preterm who transitioned directly from NNUs to PICUs.<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective cohort study, using data linkage of National Neonatal Research Database, Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network and Office for National Statistics datasets.<h4>Setting</h4>All NNUs and PICUs in England and Wales.<h4>Patients</h4>Children born <32 gestational weeks between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2018, admitted to NNUs, and who transitioned directly to PICU without return tArchives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal editionTransition from neonatal to paediatric intensive care of very preterm-born children: a cohort study of children born between 2013 and 2018 in England and Wales.PMC12229064MR/V036866/1NIHR300579NIHR300617NIHR301761MR/N008405/1Seagrave CKanthimathinathan HKSandhu SBroggi POliver CMulla SJames AShah DPektar ABalal SDuffy DAhmed IJames MBrooke NOnita RSpathis SBaird JDixon HEmery FAhmed AParish ANewman SGarbash MNicholl RAbbott LKendall Gvan Hasselt TJBabirecki MSharp VLeith WKrishnan SAlam MMuthukumar TFCroft JYoung PCowley PPurves HNash MGibson DTayo OGandhi RUnited Kingdom Neonatal Collaborative and the Paediatric Critical Care Society Study Group (PCCS-SG)Poorva RCane CBirch JAdiotomre PRamadan GPitchaikani PAucharaz KGowda BNath PFedee JWinterson ROgundiya ASalgia SGowda GDraper ESDogar DShore HSchwarz KZipitis CSivashankar SHolman JGupta RSaha BWebb DYannoulias AMittal AChanasekaran SBehrsin JGupta VBate TCurtis PMannan KSingh CGodhamgaonkar AGoel NBrearey SBatra DVayalakkad AMishra AKnight CLindley RBarnard INaidoo KChaudhary RAung YZorro CCairns PGupta AGroves CBattersby CMohammedi AHassan ASurana PAthiraman NPonnusamy VSaeed SMajuran URamachanan ADave DBarnes NJalloh SBond EKandasamy MSeaton SEWinckworth LKarupaiah ASen SEaton MAllwood ANesbitt VChuang SLSullivan CDeekollu DKettle RReddy STyszcuzk LGhoneem AHeal CDavis PJTiwary SLal MMisra IYates EKlutse TOwoeye AAbdul-Malik BJohnson MThiagarajan PRuggins NPark SYRamesh SGaili HFilkin JMcewan PBastani PAladangady NGarr RHulse ESengupta SKamalanathan AMorris EHollinsworh CTurnock KGregory ARussell ABNarayanan SMuogbo DAamir TAbelian AGale CMWong MBGrosdenier MHeaver RFierens ISiramhatia MIsaac AKumar HYasin SWallis SWarren CMcDevitt KDas AEdi-Osagie NObi BfalseTransition from neonatal to paediatric intensive care of very preterm-born children: a cohort study of children born between 2013 and 2018 in England and Wales.<h4>Objective</h4>Following very preterm birth, some children require ongoing intensive care after the neonatal period and transition directly from neonatal units (NNUs) to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) around term-corrected age.We aimed to understand, at a national level, characteristics and outcomes of children born very preterm who transitioned directly from NNUs to PICUs.<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective cohort study, using data linkage of National Neonatal Research Database, Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network and Office for National Statistics datasets.<h4>Setting</h4>All NNUs and PICUs in England and Wales.<h4>Patients</h4>Children born <32 gestational weeks between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2018, admitted to NNUs, and who transitioned directly to PICU without return t2025-01-01T00:00:00Z2025 Jun2026-03-27T15:53:08.493Z2025-08-24T03:08:59.983ZS-EPMC122290643965349910.1136/archdischild-2024-327457