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 ...

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 ...

Fibre is an essential nutrient in the human diet that is crucial for human health. It provides a range of functional benefits, including stool bulking, and physiological benefits through fermentation ...

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 ...

5 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a potentially disabling condition. There is a lack of evidence and ...

BACKGROUND Measurements of heart rate variability (HRV) are increasingly used as markers of cardiac autonomic activity. AIM To examine circadian variation in heart rate and HRV in children. SUBJECTS A ...

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Background There is strong evidence that oral steroids improve outcomes in adult patients with Bell’s palsy, but no consensus for paediatric patients. Different management approaches exist. All use ...

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to ...

The UK Renal Registry currently collects information on UK children with kidney failure requiring long-term kidney replacement therapy (KRT), which supports disease surveillance and auditing of care ...