Aims Children and young people (CYP) requiring Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) are cared for across 17 hospitals within the Thames Valley and Wessex (TV&W) Operational Delivery Network (ODN), with 2 ...

and reprint requests to: Dr Alastair J Baker, Department of Child Health, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS. Hepatitis GB virus-C (HGBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection was ...

Objectives Childhood obesity is an increasing problem with well-recognised health implications. 1 2 Our aims were to identify childhood obesity rates presenting to our local paediatric department, and ...

Objectives To identify the evidence base behind the neuroradiological features that differentiate abusive head trauma (AHT) from non-abusive head trauma (nAHT). Design Systematic review. Setting ...

In April 2024, the final report of the Cass Review, an independent review chaired by Dr Hilary Cass, was published, offering recommendations to improve gender identity services for children and young ...

Setting: Home visits in nine European regions by research associates who administered standard questionnaires to parents. Patients: 279 children with hemiplegia aged 8–12 years were recruited from ...

Aims Nurse-led asthma clinics have been consistently evidenced to improve the quality of asthma care and reduce hospital admissions in children. Birmingham has greater childhood asthma prevalence and ...

1 Department of Child Psychology, University Hospital of Wales, UK 2 Department of Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Channon, Consultant ...

Objective We aimed to explore the views of Malaysian children with asthma and their parents to enhance understanding of early influences on development of self-management skills. Design This is a ...

Introduction The Medication Prescription and Administration Record (Kardex) must always be legible and complete. It is this initial point of prescription writing that opens the way for errors and ...

Background Delayed recognition of clinical deterioration can result in harm to patients. Parents/carers can often recognise ...

a Department of Paediatric Oncology, St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, b University of Sheffield Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, ...