As survival rates for children born extremely preterm (EP, <28 weeks’ gestation) have increased with advances in perinatal and neonatal care, their long-term functioning and quality of life assume ...

2 Great Ormond Street Hospital/Institute of Child Heath, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK An estimated 14 million of the world’s children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in ...

Correspondence to Dr Susan Byrne, Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; suabyrne{at}rcsi.ie Introduction ...

Correspondence to Dr Daryl R Cheng, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia; daryl.cheng{at}rch.org.au The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been linked to upper airway ...

Correspondence to Dr Russell E Ware, Division of Hematology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Russell.Ware{at}cchmc.org The ...

Objective As children hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are at risk of persistent chest radiograph (CXR) abnormalities and respiratory sequelae, we investigated factors associated ...

Objective To describe the demographic characteristics, causes and temporal patterns of child deaths occurring in a paediatric emergency department (ED) over a 10-year period. Design Single-centre ...

Correspondence to Professor Peter de Winter, Department of Pediatrics, Spaarne Gasthuis, 2000 AK Haarlem, The Netherlands; pdewinter{at}spaarnegasthuis.nl Background Parents are often confronted with ...

1 Academic Unit of Clinical & Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 2 NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University of Southampton and Southampton University ...

Background National and international guidelines recommend that psychosocial support should be a key component of the care offered to children and adolescents experiencing gender ...

Background Most guidelines recommend the use of capillary refill time (CRT) as part of the routine assessment of unwell children, but there is little consensus on the optimum method of measurement and ...

Correspondence to Dr Adrian Plunkett, PICU, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; adrian.plunkett{at}bch.nhs.uk In healthcare, we tend to place greater emphasis ...