We encounter, occasionally, parents who are incapable of making medical decisions on behalf of their incompetent or ...

Aims The HEADSSS assessment is an internationally used tool to help give structure and framework to an assessment of an adolescent patient. Objective To analyze the knowledge among doctors in the ...

Introduction More than half of all drugs are still prescribed off-label to children. To support off-label dosing, pharmacokinetic (PK) data are needed. Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) ...

Objectives Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children, affecting 2–3 in every primary school class.1 Asthma disproportionately affects children living in poverty due to air pollution, ...

Methods We used novel linkage between health and education records from the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) database to develop a whole-country cohort of children ...

Objectives Describe clinical characteristics, treatment and outcomes of children treated for life-threatening pertussis in paediatric intensive care units during the 2023–2024 outbreak in Great ...

For anyone, undergoing surgery is stressful. For children on the autism spectrum, it can be even more traumatic. Sensory differences are present in the majority of children on the autism spectrum,1 ...

Methods Our aim in this observational study was to assess safety of the delivery room cuddles for babies born < 32 weeks’ gestation. As part of the stabilisation for babies born < 32 weeks, if certain ...

Objectives It is mandatory for all Western Australian (WA) EDs to complete injury proformas for all children under 2 years presenting with an injury. At Bunbury Regional Hospital (BRH), this is termed ...

Analysis of judgements in the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal is not usually carried out by doctors or even groups of eminent doctors. In the March issue of this journal, Richards et al have ...

Introduction The destination of transgender and gender variant young people referred by the National Health Service (NHS) Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) to, and discharged from the two ...

Objectives To describe the incidence of new onset paediatric diabetes mellitus, clinical characteristics and patterns of presentation to emergency departments (ED) during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to ...