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 ...

Aims: To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. Methods: An all language literature search up to 2004.

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 ...

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz (Black Sea) Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey Professor H Mocan, Tesvikiye Caddesi No. 143, 80200 Nisantasi-Istanbul, Turkey. To evaluate ...

Objective To determine if administration of oral prednisolone to preschool children with acute wheeze alters respiratory outcomes. Design Double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled equivalence trial ...

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 ...

Images in paediatrics: Puffy infant suffering from respiratory distress: a clue for visual diagnosis (25 June, 2026) ...

David Pace, Oxford Vaccine Group, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK; ...