To determine clear guidelines on the best treatment approach for parapneumonic effusions and empyemas as a result of pneumonia in children. The primary aim of this systematic review is to identify which of antibiotics alone, chest tube drainage with/without fibrinolytics, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, or open thoracotomy leads to a shortened length of stay in children with empyema.

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Dr. Nassr Nama, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FAAP. Primary Investigator. Department of Pediatrics, BC Children's Hospital. Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. His research interests include crowdsourcing systematic reviews, clinical decision support, and knowledge synthesis and translation. *https://www.bcchr.ca/nnama.* Bryn Longcroft-Harris, BSc. Fourth year medical student, University of British Columbia.

• Potential authorship
• Academic advancement
• Letter of reference
• Involvement in future projects
• Research Experience

To participate in this project, crowd members (reviewers) must meet the following criteria: ((1)). The reviewer must complete the qualification set prior to the event to register and demonstrate acceptable performance with citation screening. ((2)) Reviewers will have the potential to be included under a group authorship on all future manuscripts and presented abstracts. To qualify, reviewers must screen a minimum of 1000 abstracts and 100 full-texts, upload 50 pdfs and extract 10 citations. Reviewers must also be available to review/extract citations on a bimonthly basis until full publication. ((3)) Alternatively, reviewers can be included in the acknowledgments. To qualify, reviewers will have to screen approximately 500 abstracts and 50 full-texts and upload 25 PDFs. ((4)) Finally, we will offer reference letters to any reviewer who has screened more than 250 abstracts, 25 full-texts and uploaded 10 PDFs. [Doing extra at any stage of the review can offset doing below the threshold at another stage.] Reviewers can screen articles any time until December 10th. There will be a weekend reviewing event (November 13-14) where more immediate support will be available. If there are additional questions, please email Bryn at brynlh@student.ubc.ca. *** If interested, click "Apply to this Project" to sign-up. ***

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