Evaluation and medical management of poisoning is often aided by laboratory tests. These range from basic analyses used ...

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a familiar problem across health systems around the world. In most countries, the ...

There are at least 12 paintings from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries titled, ‘The Sick Child’. They were painted by well-known and obscure artists from Holland, Norway, France, England, ...

1 Paediatric Rheumatology/Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

Correspondence to Dr Jenny M Kindblom, Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Vitaminvägen 21, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg 413 45, Sweden; ...

Paediatric Microbiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK N J Sebire, Department of Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for ...

Neonatal jaundice is predominantly a benign condition that affects 60%–80% of newborns worldwide but progresses to potentially harmful severe hyperbilirubinaemia in some. Despite the proven ...

Rationale Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. Objective To calculate potential cost ...

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 Professor T J Cole, Population, Policy and Practice Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK; tim.cole{at}ucl.ac.uk Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't ...

Background and Aims QCRP being acute phase reactant has predictable pattern of rise and fall following inflammation. Few studies have used QCRP for appropriateness of antibiotic therapy. To determine ...