In the UK, Paediatric Intensive Care (PIC) services have been centralised since the 1990s in response to high mortality and ...
Introduction The number of children with life-limiting conditions has risen in recent decades, partly due to medical advances ...
Purpose Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is associated with acute and chronic physical health risks, but ...
In 2025, the UK government commissioned the Kingdon Review of Children’s Hearing Services, which identified ‘major problems’ ...
Background The gold standard for diagnosis of meningitis is the isolation of a pathogen from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by culture or PCR. However, treatment is routinely commenced based on CSF ...
Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence are extremely common and are often associated with lifelong psychiatric disturbance. Consistent with DSM-5 and the extant literature, this review ...
Design Non-randomised non-blinded school-based intervention study. Setting Two schools in the cities of Pune and Nasik, India. Participants The intervention group comprised children attending a Pune ...
A randomised open label study of the combined use of paracetamol and ibuprofen to rapidly reduce fever is reported. The advantage of using both medications is less than half a degree centigrade in the ...
Objective To study reconstitution and preparation dosing errors of liquid oral medications given by caregivers to children. Methods A prospective observational study was carried out in the departments ...
Correspondence to Dr. Adam O’Brien, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; adam.obrien{at}rch.org.au Objectives The clinical diagnosis of ...
Correspondence to Simon C Blackburn, Department of Specialist Neonatal and Paediatric Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; ...
Correspondence to Professor Vincent Guigonis, Department of Paediatrics, CHREC, Limoges University Hospital, 8 Ave D Larrey, 87000, Limoges, France; v.guigonis{at}gmail.com Patients and design ...