Objectives Long-term, hospital-based data on neonatal outcomes from low- and middle-income countries remain scarce, hindering ...

Objective Unplanned discharges are an important risk factor for adverse outcomes in children. We aimed to assess the impact of unplanned discharge on postdischarge outcomes and to identify key ...

Setting Born in Bradford (BiB), a multiethnic UK birth cohort. Participants 13 282 children born between 2007 and 2011 with ...

Objective This study aims to describe the differences in Paediatric Critical Care Transport (PCCT) timings across the UK and ...

Objective This study aims to evaluate the burden of oral corticosteroid (OCS) use and any relationship to clinical phenotype in preschool children presenting with acute wheeze attacks. Methods ...

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are increasingly recommended or required by journals for observational studies making causal claims yet few paediatric observational studies present DAGs to support ...

Correspondence to Dr Mohamed Mutalib, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; mohamed.mutalib{at}gstt.nhs.uk Background Pneumatosis ...

Design Two round modified Delphi method using the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) members. Setting UK PCCS acute transport group and national PCCT teams. Results A total of 145 research ...

Correspondence to Dr Rebecca J Scharf, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, P.O. Box 800828, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; rebeccascharf{at ...

Objective Large new children’s cohorts now allow embedded trials for prevention and early intervention, offering rare opportunities to reduce the burden of childhood and future chronic disease. We ...

BACKGROUND Measurements of heart rate variability (HRV) are increasingly used as markers of cardiac autonomic activity. AIM To examine circadian variation in heart rate and HRV in children. SUBJECTS A ...