About PERN
The Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) is comprised of representative hospitals from the major national and international Pediatric Emergency Medicine research networks located in Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and Australasia. These networks are:
– Research in European Paediatric Emergency Medicine (REPEM)
– Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)
– Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC)
– Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT)
– Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom & Ireland (PERUKI)
– Red de Investigacion y Desarollo de la Emergencia Pediatrica Latinoamerica (RIDEPLA)
Together the research networks have access to data from over 2 million pediatric emergency presentations per annum, to over 100 hospitals, in four of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions.
