Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive condition involving movement and muscle tone difficulties due to injury to the developing brain. Most cases arise around birth, but a smaller ...
Background and objective Speech disorders are a common presenting concern to paediatricians. Yet evidence to guide detection and speech sound therapy referral of cases at risk for persistent speech ...
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of infant hospitalisation due to lower respiratory tract infections. Until 2022, prevention was limited to the costly monoclonal ...
Objective To describe the demographic characteristics, causes and temporal patterns of child deaths occurring in a paediatric emergency department (ED) over a 10-year period. Design Single-centre ...
2 Dept of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to: Dr S F Ahmed, Dept of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK; ...
Daniel E Lumsden, Robert Spaull, Sarah Abernethy, Mayy El Gamal, Katharine Forrest, Louisa Akwaama Lemaire, Jean-Pierre Lin, Sofia Marques, Valerie Orr, Lucinda Carr, Yasmin De Alwis, Anita Devlin, ...
Correspondence to Dr Moira S Cheung, Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; Moira.Cheung{at}gstt.nhs.uk Background Achondroplasia is associated ...
Objectives The ‘Garden for the Future’ project aimed to redesign an outdated, inaccessible and underused outdoor play area at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle. The project was sparked ...
Estimates for the UK suggest that alcohol consumption during pregnancy and prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)—the most common neurodevelopmental condition—are high. Considering the ...
Department of Paediatric Neurology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK Background: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) in children is associated with a high incidence of serious ...
Aims: To estimate the annual incidence of hospitalisations due to severe complications of varicella, describe the complications and estimate annual mortality. Methods: Active surveillance throughout ...
Early Years Research Programme, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to Professor Alison Mary Kemp, Institute of Primary Care and ...