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

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a potentially chronic infection that can be transmitted from mother to child with the risk of ...

Regional Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Leeds, St James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive ...

Objective: The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of a short, highly structured parent based language intervention group programme for 2-year-old children with ...

Correspondence to Dr Ali Shabbir Hussain, Department of Pediatrics & Child health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan; ali.hussain{at}aku.edu Objective Central line associated ...

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, ...

Background Stunting, defined as height-for-age under 2 standard deviations below the population median, is an important indicator of child health. Stunting has been extensively researched in ...

Background Functional symptoms can be defined as physical symptoms without a physical cause. Pervasive Arousal Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS), which can be conceptualised as an extreme functional disorder ...

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 ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK 2 Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, St George’s Hospitals NHS FT, London, UK 3 Department of Paediatrics, St George’s Hospitals ...

4 School of Clinical Medical Sciences (Child Health), Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 5 Division of Health in the Community, Warwick ...

Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr I Wolfe, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London ...