Improving interhospital paediatric transport.

The author comments on the study, on the patients outcomes of unplanned admissions to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Great Britain. According to the study, patients' outcomes were better when patients were transferred from local hospitals rather then from wards within the same hospital as the PICU, and survival rate among critically ill children was better when the children from other hospitals were transported by specialist retrieval teams rather than non-specialist teams.