Poor saliva control (sialorrhoea) represents a considerable burden to paediatric patients with neurodevelopmental ...

Objective To externally validate the Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying febrile ...

Usually, when life-saving treatment is withdrawn from children with the agreement of their parents, there is no necessity for any legal involvement or intervention. In the small number of cases where ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison Salt, Neurodisability Service, The Nurses Home Building, Great Ormond, Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; alison.salt{at}gosh.nhs.uk ...

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Claire Irving, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon ...

BACKGROUND Cause specific research on death certification in chronic disease has rarely involved cerebral palsy. AIMS To evaluate cause of death information in people known to have cerebral palsy by: ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

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AIM To examine whether duration of breast feeding has any effect on a child's cognitive or motor development in a population with favourable environmental conditions and a high prevalence of breast ...

Clear sex differences exist in asthma and atopy with a preponderance of boys before puberty. There is a reversal of this sex ratio during puberty with girls having more asthma and atopy throughout the ...

1 Paediatric Rheumatology/Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 ...

Correspondence to Dr Mary E Ramsay, Department of Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety, Public Health England, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK; Mary.ramsay{at}phe.gov.uk By 2010, the ...