Objective To describe the incidence and prevalence of multimorbidity in children and young people (CYP) aged <18 years and to ...

A consultation with a family can sometimes take on a circular quality. Confronted with a parent’s reluctance to vaccinate their child, the paediatrician’s familiar response is to reach for data, ...

Introduction Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge. Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) clinics were established in England in 2021 for children and young people (CYP) living with ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

1 Institute of Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 2 Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff School of Medicine, ...

Correspondence to Dr Antonio Clavenna, Laboratory for Mother and Child Health, Department of Public Health, IRCCS—Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, Milan 20156, Italy; ...

Objective To measure the actual radiation dose delivered by imaging techniques commonly used in the radiography of suspected physical abuse and to make this information available to health ...

Health care professionals are increasingly required to base clinical decisions on the best available evidence. Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a systematic approach to clinical problem solving which ...

Purpose Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is defined as hearing loss in one or both ears of ≥ 30 dB, developing within 3 days, affecting at least 3 contiguous frequencies. It is rare in ...

Aim To describe the incidence, patient profile, management strategies and outcome for infants and children who developed a chylothorax in the UK. Methods A prospective study of infants and children ...

3 Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA Correspondence to Professor Linda S Franck, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, School ...

Objective Clinical trial sponsors spend considerable resources preparing informed consent (IC) and assent documentation for multinational paediatric clinical trial applications in Europe due to the ...