Effective discharge communication is essential to ensuring safe transitions of care, especially for children and young people ...

The Archives of Disease in Childhood ’s centenary provides an opportunity to reflect on how our attitudes to child abuse have ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate short and long term effects of giving nebulised budesonide early in respiratory syncytial viral (RSV) bronchiolitis. DESIGN A multicentre randomised double blind placebo ...

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 ...

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Dr Astrid E Lammers, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; astridlammers{at}gmx.de Objective: The 6-minute walk test ...

AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes on parenting and quality of the home environment. DESIGN Systematic review of the literature of randomised controlled trials and ...

Correspondence to Dr Jamie G Cooper, Emergency Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB25 2ZN, UK; jamie.cooper2{at}nhs.net Deaths from choking are a major cause of childhood mortality, ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

1 Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa Correspondence to: Dr ...

1 Medicines Evaluation Board in the Netherlands, Department of Chemical Pharmaceutical Assessment, Utrecht, The Netherlands (until 2011 this department belonged to the National Institute of Public ...

2 Department of Practice and Policy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, Mezzanine, BMA House, London, UK 3 Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS ...