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: ...

Maria Valentina Abate, Ingeborg Barisic, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Joachim Tan, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Ljubica Odak, Elisa Ballardini, Clara Cavero-Carbonell ...

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 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 ...

Objective Recovery from acute wheeze and asthma attacks should be supported with safety netting, including treatment advice. We evaluated emergency department (ED) discharge practices for acute ...

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 ...

In January 1860, a Court heard ‘complaints of chastisement’ inflicted on a child with significant injuries.1 The physical punishment the child had been subjected to was reportedly designed to ‘subdue ...

Identifying a genetic cause for growth disorders is crucial for detecting multi-system conditions, determining eligibility or contraindications for growth therapies and ending the diagnostic odyssey.

BACKGROUND Mortality rates in children with insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM) in the UK are unknown and the causes of death not well documented. AIM To determine the mortality rate and causes of death ...