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Aim Gentamicin is widely used to treat early neonatal sepsis as part of a regimen recommended by NICE. 1 However, it is frequently implicated in clinical incidents relating to errors in prescribing ...

Improved measurement in early child development (ECD) is a strategic focus of the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank Nurturing Care Framework. However, evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluation ...

Aims The UK has faced 3 major lockdowns since March 2020 due to the pandemic, affecting access to education, healthcare provision and social activities. Children with Down Syndrome are more likely to ...

Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Charts are presented which give centile standards for boys' and girls' heights at ages 2 to 9 when parents' height is allowed for. Mid-parent height is used (i.e. the average of father's and mother's ...

Aims The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of children and young people (CYP); with illness-related anxiety, social/physical distancing, mandatory quarantines, travel ...

Background Medicine use during pregnancy often causes concern for fetal harm. Roxithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, is regarded as inadvisable to use during pregnancy due to lack of safety data.

Correspondence to Matthew A Jay, Legal Epidemiology Group, University College London, London WC1N 1EH, UK; matthew.jay.15{at}ucl.ac.uk Better understanding of the proportion of children who ever ...

Aims The aim was to determine the number of readmissions and identify the underlying causes of readmissions. The standard for the audit was that the readmission rate should be less than 5% and that ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

Background A male infant was admitted to the neonatal unit with respiratory distress, following delivery by emergency caesarean section at 36/40 for maternal illness (viraemia). The patient’s ...