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Ehlers–Danlos syndrome: how to diagnose and when to perform genetic tests

The term Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) encompasses a group of inherited connective tissue disorders. The manifestations of EDS can be seen in skin, joints, blood vessels and internal organs and vary ...
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Changes in UK paediatric long-term ventilation practice over 10 years

Correspondence to Dr Heather E Elphick, Respiratory Medicine, Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; h.elphick{at}nhs.net Objectives To provide up-to-date ...
Archives of Disease in Childhood

Best interests: the domain of the living

Usually, when life-saving treatment is withdrawn from children with the agreement of their parents, there is no necessity for any legal involvement or intervention.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 ...
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Catch-up growth and metabolic outcomes in adolescents born preterm

2 Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Background Accelerated infant weight gain in individuals born full term is linked to cardiovascular risk in adulthood, ...
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Understanding randomised controlled trials

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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Validating the PECARN rule to identify febrile infants at low risk of serious bacterial infections: an international validation study

Objective To externally validate the Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying febrile ...
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A vaccine emergency—when to overrule parental refusal of vaccination at birth for prevention of vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus?

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a potentially chronic infection that can be transmitted from mother to child with the risk of ...
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Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Medical Research Council/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Alison Parkes, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University ...
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Recognition, investigation and management of mitochondrial disease

1 Metabolic Unit,Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 Mitochondrial Research Group,UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence ...
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Blood pressure centiles for Great Britain

Objective: To produce representative cross-sectional blood pressure reference centiles for children and young people living in Great Britain. Design: Analysis of blood pressure data from seven ...
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Is nasogastric fluid therapy a safe alternative to the intravenous route in infants with bronchiolitis?

It is mid-December. As a paediatric SHO working a busy evening shift in a district general hospital, you are called to re-site the intravenous cannula of an infant with bronchiolitis. This is the ...
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Comparison of peripheral and central capillary refill time in febrile children presenting to a paediatric emergency department and its utility in identifying children with ...

Correspondence to Dr Rianne Oostenbrink, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN Rotterdam, Department of General Paediatrics, room Sp-1549, P.O. Box 2060, Rotterdam 3000 CB, The ...