Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr I Wolfe, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London ...

Maria Valentina Abate, Ingeborg Barisic, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Joachim Tan, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Ljubica Odak, Elisa Ballardini, Clara Cavero-Carbonell ...

Objective Recovery from acute wheeze and asthma attacks should be supported with safety netting, including treatment advice. We evaluated emergency department (ED) discharge practices for acute ...

Background and aim Poisoning and deaths linked to methadone have risen since the beginning of methadone treatment.1 2 Methadone poisoning is common among children.3 The aim of this review was to ...

Correspondence to Dr Justin Penner, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK; justin.penner{at}nhs.net Background The epidemiology of congenital ...

Introduction We aimed to establish the clinical characteristics of children and young people (CAYP) currently receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy for the management of movement disorders in ...

3 Department of Clinical Psychology, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight, UK 4 Department of Paediatrics, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight, UK 5 David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, St Mary’s ...

Charts are presented which give centile standards for boys' and girls' heights at ages 2 to 9 when parents' height is allowed for. Mid-parent height is used (i.e. the average of father's and mother's ...

2 Department of Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 3 Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to: Dr L J Griffiths Centre for ...

Objective Assess sociodemographic disparities in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses and determine ...

Objective Although dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is the preferred method to estimate adiposity, body mass index (BMI) is often used as a proxy. However, the ability of BMI to measure ...

Each year hundreds of randomised controlled trials are conducted in low- and middle-income countries addressing issues in clinical paediatrics and in child and adolescent health. The topics are as ...