Aims: To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. Methods: An all language literature search up to 2004.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 2 Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University Correspondence to: Dr G Annerén, Department of Genetics ...

Objectives This systematic review focused on the physical signs of accidental anogenital injury in children under 18 and whether they can be distinguished from injuries caused by child sexual abuse ...

Background Haemolytic Disease of Newborn (HDN) caused by Rhesus or ABO incompatibility can cause severe haemolysis, jaundice and anaemia in infants. The direct antiglobulin test (DAT) is the test of ...

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