A review of the history of confidential enquiries The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) was established in April 2003. It replaces CESDI (the Confidential Enquiry into ...

Tablets are safer, more convenient and cheaper than liquid medications. Children and young people (CYP) often remain on liquids due to habit, reluctance to change or staff and parents’ lack of ...

Conclusion Consumption of slush ice drinks containing glycerol may cause a clinical syndrome of glycerol intoxication in young children, characterised by decreased consciousness, hypoglycaemia, lactic ...

Premature adrenarche (PA) is characterised by early maturation of the zona reticularis of the adrenal gland before 8 and 9 years in girls and boys, respectively.1 Biochemical analysis of androgens is ...

Objective Routine varicella zoster vaccination for children aged 18 months began in Australia from November 2005. The aim of this study was to compare the current incidence and outcomes of congenital ...

Objective To determine if administration of oral prednisolone to preschool children with acute wheeze alters respiratory outcomes. Design Double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled equivalence trial ...

Background Higher screen time is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk in adults, but the association with T2D risk markers in children is unclear. We examined associations between self-reported ...

Objective To report the performance of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) in the diagnosis of serious/invasive bacterial infections (SBI/IBI) in infants presenting with a fever to emergency care in ...

Family Integrated Care (FIC) is a new model of neonatal care which supports parents to be primary caregivers, as partners with the clinical team.1 The inspiration for FIC comes from lower resource ...

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt1 The pursuit of patient safety is a key component of the wider endeavour to improve quality of healthcare ...

Objectives To compare the odds of depression in obese and overweight children with that in normal-weight children in the community. Design Systematic review and random-effect meta-analysis of ...

From birth, children living in disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances (SECs) suffer from worse health than their more advantaged peers. The pathways through which SECs influence children’s health ...