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

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 ...

Interpretation of analgesic and antipyretic responses documented after paracetamol administration is confused because response is not directly related to concentration in the blood, but rather to an ...

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

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, ...

3 Department of Pediatrics, St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Juliette M T M Rutten, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Emma ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Professor A M Weindling Department of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Neonatal Unit, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown St, Liverpool L8 7SS, UK; a.m.weindlingliv.ac.uk A ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in childhood and adolescence is an impairing condition, associated with a specific set of distressing symptoms incorporating repetitive, intrusive thoughts ...

Objective To determine whether demographic and diagnostic characteristics were associated with location of death in a series of children with life-limiting illnesses. Design A population-level case ...

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 ...

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 ...