Objectives Barking and Dagenham is an economically deprived borough of London with high levels of child poverty and more than 600 children and young people (CYP) who are in the care system. CYP in ...

Objective To determine the trajectory of cognitive test scores from infancy to adulthood in individuals born extremely preterm compared with term-born individuals. Design A prospective, ...

Background Medication reconciliation is an organisational practice designed to ensure patients' pre-admission medicines are prescribed correctly upon admission to hospital. Multiple sources of ...

Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Background: Clinical vital signs in children (temperature, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure) are an integral part of clinical assessment of degree of illness or normality. Despite this ...

To describe the epidemiology and clinical features of Sydenham’s chorea in the Aboriginal population of northern Australia a review was conducted of 158 episodes in 108 people: 106 were Aborigines, 79 ...

AIMS To delineate common and variable features and outcome of children with congenital disorder of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) caused by the frequent R141H/F119LPMM2 genotype. METHODS Clinical data ...

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 ...

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA Andreas Meyer-Heim, Mühlebergstr. 104, ...

Correspondence to Dr Silvia Bressan, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Padova 35128, Italy; silviabress{at}gmail.com If you wish to ...

2 Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to: Prof. P O D Pharoah Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK; ...

Asthma has little, if any, significant effect on attained adult height. Untreated asthma results in a delay of puberty by approximately 1.3 years, and pubertal delay is likely to explain the majority ...