The CRE projects cover four main research themes and include clinical, social and laboratory based research. The outcomes of many of these projects will directly inform current treatment practices and policies.
1. Predisposing contributors to respiratory disease:
- Aboriginal knowledge, attitudes and perception on respiratory illness
- No germs
- Asthma and smoking prevention project (ASPP)
- Audit of asthma hospitalisations
2. Treatment of ARIs:
- Acute Respiratory Illness Follow Up
- Airway bacteriology of children with Bronchiectasis
- ICS: Randomised Placebo Controlled Trial of Inhaled Corticosteroids for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Cough in Children
- Microbes In the NasOpharynx Prior tO Lung Infection (MINOPOLI)
- Randomised controlled trial of azithromycin to reduce the morbidity of severe bronchiolitis in young Indigenous children (ABIS2).
3. Impacting on recurrent or persistent airway inflammation and/or infection
- Combating Haemophilus influenzae-Related Respiratory Pathology (CHiRRP)
- Immune function in children with bronchiectasis
- Protracted bacterial bronchitis: long term outcomes and predictors of recurrence
- LOTUS - Long Term follow Up improves clinical care and respirator outcomeS for Indigenous children
4. Secondary and tertiary prevention through improving clinical care management and evidence base:
- Bronchiectasis exacerbation study (part 1 and 2) (BEST)
- Multi-centre bronchiectasis study: a collaborative and international study of bronchiectasis in Indigenous children (BIS)