The National Health Service (NHS) has invested significantly in digitisation over the past two decades. Yet frontline ...

The field of genetics has evolved rapidly in recent years, however early understanding of inheritance patterns began much ...

Objectives Primary: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the diagnosis of appendicitis in paediatric patients presenting with suspected appendicitis. Secondary: ...

Aims: To obtain age references for sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH/H ratio in the Netherlands; to evaluate how SH standard deviation score (SDS), LL SDS, SH/H SDS, and SH/LL SDS are ...

Correspondence to: Prof. H P van Bever Department of Paediatrics, National University Hospital, Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074; paevbhpsnus.edu.sg If you wish to reuse any or all ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard Reading, Community Paediatrics, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK; richard.reading{at}nnuh.nhs.uk The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU ...

Background and aim Poisoning and deaths linked to methadone have risen since the beginning of methadone treatment.1 2 Methadone poisoning is common among children.3 The aim of this review was to ...

1 Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 ...

Objective To report mortality in babies enrolled on a community-based programme, Care of Next Infant Plus (CONI PLUS), which primarily supports parents anxious because of previous sudden unexpected ...

Background/aim Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) are rare imprinting disorders caused by the aberrant expression of 15q11.2-q13 imprinted genes. Due to their rarity, data on ...

Aims: To determine benefits and risks for gastrostomy or jejunostomy feeding compared with oral feeding for children with cerebral palsy. Methods: Systematic review. Search strategy: electronic ...