The UK has a longstanding system of general practice which provides the vast majority of primary care, including that for children. It acts as a 'gatekeeper' to more specialist care. Parents may also ...

Design A prospective observational study over 1 year. Setting A District General Hospital, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Department. Patients Children aged 8–18 years living in the catchment ...

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of early supplementation with insulin glargine (GI) during the acute management of paediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Design Double-blinded ...

Aim Following the publication of the updated NICE guidelines1 recommending the use of standardised parenteral nutrition (PN) in preterm and term babies, alongside the known associated risks to patient ...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limiting inflammatory disorder, associated with vasculitis, affecting predominantly medium-sized arteries, particularly the coronary arteries. In developed ...

Joint hypermobility and genetic collagen disorders: are they related? If this same question had been posed a quarter of a century ago, the answer would have been very different from what is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most children in hospital who are clinically deteriorating are monitored regularly, and their treatment is escalated effectively. However a small, but significant, number of deteriorating children ...

BACKGROUND Salbutamol is frequently used as a bronchodilator for infants who wheeze. Many single dose studies have questioned its effectiveness. AIMS To investigate the response of wheezy infants to ...

Background Recruitment of paediatric trainees is not matching its increasing demand. In 2019, only 69.8% of paediatric training program posts were filled, the lowest out of all UK programmes. Such ...